Search function not working properly

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I'm not a programmer by trade or by choice, but if I want my site live this week, I've got to work out these kinks myself. I've read the FAQ's in their entirety and searched the forum-both current and archived- in every way I could think of, and nothing seemed to match or address the problem I'm having.

The Search function is misfiring in the following ways:

1. It seems to be searching product descriptions only. I need it to search category names and product names also.

2. It searches for a string and not a whole word. So when I put in 'red' as a search term, the results return items with the word 'colored' in the description.

My categories are set up like so:
Type:
>Anklet
>Bracelet
etc....

Color:
>Blue
>Red
etc....
I haven't mixed sub-categories and products in any category. None of my products are in the top. From what I've read here, it should autogenerate the keywords from the fields that I want, but it's not happening. Is this something that anyone can help with? Or is this beyond the scope of the forum?

Thanks much in advance :)

http://www.dragonsdreams.net/ (for reference)

edited to add:
I'm guessing I need to add the category ID and product name ID tables somewhere, but I'm at a loss as to where 'somewhere' is.