Thanks for the reply, macro. I am not using endnotes, and I have tried the repair via Programs and Features. Still no change. I even discovered the malware searchqu through trying to figure it out, cleaned that out, and STILL the problem persists. What's so strange is that it worked fine for a month and a half, I've applied no recent Office or Windows updates (though I have applied Office 2010 SP1) and yet, last week, this was just suddenly broken.

There was a point last week where I was trying to bring one Word doc back from Minimize while hitting another to do some editing, which seemed to make the program do some weird hiccup, but what that could've done to the Find functionality is beyond me...