Index: finduser.module
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/modules/finduser/finduser.module,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 finduser.module
--- finduser.module	21 Nov 2007 17:53:21 -0000	1.1
+++ finduser.module	25 Mar 2008 11:44:07 -0000
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@
 
 function finduser_form_validate($form_id, $form_values, $form) {
   if ($form_values['search_by'] != 'email') {
+    // remove wildcards
+    $form_values['search_text'] = str_replace('%', '', $form_values['search_text']);
     if (strlen($form_values['search_text']) < variable_get('finduser_minimum_characters', 3)) {
       form_set_error('search_text', t('Your search text needs to be @d characters or longer.', array('@d' => variable_get('finduser_minimum_characters', 3))));
     }