fwiw, we found this: http://www.trirand.net/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2630

Using themes version greyed out the grid before we even pressed Search.

There is no jquery.searchFilter.css in our download.

QUESTION: how does one know the development version vs. any other (production? test?) version?

Is this not supposed to be trivial to make default .navGrid search work?

Well, answer is above is still not complete.

The multiselect still displays diagonal greyed lines over grid behind the modal search dialog.

This example is how we want it to work: /blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html

We are using ui.multiselect.css, but still get this.

Can anyone help us so we do not have to spend hours, perhaps days, debugging jqGrid stuff???