I don't understand how people don't understand the Part Search/Recruit feature, even before the normal Search feature came along. It's pretty straight forward if you take the time to actually look at it.

Search
-> Name: Obviously the name of the party.
-> Purpose: Obviously the intended purpose of the party.
-> Location: Obviously the intended location of the party.
-> Class: Which class you want to be in the party

I really do not get how that is hard to understand at all. The only hard things are "Name," which is easy to figure out if you actually use it, and the fact that you have to go through the "Party" menu to get to it. The only changes I would make are: Change it to say "Party Name" instead of "Name," divide it into "Party Recruit," "Current Party," and "Party Search," and change the drop-down for selecting your class to be the checkboxes we have in the normal Search feature. That would be pretty good IMO.

The recruit feature is a bit less intuitive, but still pretty easy to get the hang of once you actually look at it. I mean "look at it" as in click stuff and try to understand it, not stare at it for 3 seconds and then decide it isn't as easy as pressing "PUT ME IN A PARTY PLEASE."