Messages Search: Reduced Keyboard ???

I'm running .246 on my new Torch... Have to admit I still have concerns about this device but it's growing on me... :)

I've selected full keyboard in landscape and reduced for portrait... both are set to predictive... when I do a global search (love this feature BTW) or any other function that uses a keyboard, I get my reduced/predictive in portrait when the slider is closed...

But, if I open the message view and search there (magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the touch screen) no matter what I do, all I can get is the reduced/doubletap keyboard and the double tap icon appears in the top/right of the screen...

Has anybody else noticed this? any fix? is there some reason why this is the only option? To be honest, I've not thought this through... it's just bugging me as I really don't like double tap.