Interesting, “Blog page shows at most x posts” reads as how many articles do I want to be displayed on a page. It was set as one. Changing it to ten allowed ten finds from a search to be displayed while still only displaying one article at a time outside of the search.
As I remember, some of the search plugins I tried had a “number of results to display” choice that was apparently overridden by setting>reading.
Now I think all is well. Thanks!