Is there some bug with the verity merge utility and MX 7 Search Server?

We recently upgraded to MX 7 and ever since then the Search Server has given
me numerous problems. Yesterday I reinstalled the Search Server created a test
collection ran it through my browser and was able to get the results. I have
about forty collections that I merge into four larger collections for
searching, but when I ran the merge from the command prompt today and then used
the collections I get a variety of errors from CF. The error that I am
receiving right now is that the search server is not running. But, I do see
that it is running, and have restarted it a couple of times, and I can access
my collections (and take action against them) from within the CF administrator.

Here is the text of the error:
Unable to connect to the ColdFusion MX Search service.
On Windows you may need to start the ColdFusion MX Search Server from the
services control panel.
On Unix, you may need to run the 'cfmxsearch' script in the ColdFusion MX bin
directory.
Error: ------
com.verity.resource.PoolingException: cannot make connection to server at:
k2://localhost:9920
at com.verity.net.ConnectionPool.getNewResource(Unkno wn Source)
at com.verity.resource.ResourcePool.newResource(Unkno wn Source)
at com.verity.net.Connection.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at com.verity.search.util.JSDispenser.getConnResource (Unknown Source)
at com.verity.search.ProcessK2Operation.submit(Unknow n Source)
at com.verity.search.VSearch.getK2Info(Unknown Source)
at com.verity.search.VSearch.collectionByAlias(Unknow n Source)
at coldfusion.tagext.search.SearchTag.verifyLocale(Se archTag.java:761)
at coldfusion.tagext.search.SearchTag.doSearch(Search Tag.java:200)
at coldfusion.tagext.search.SearchTag.doStartTag(Sear chTag.java:159)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTag(CfJspPage.j ava:1908)
at
cfsitesearch_VSearchResult2ecfm99320539._factor6(D :\GOSNet\wwwroot\GOSNET\sitese
arch_VSearchResult.cfm:32)


Someone please help before I pull all my hair out!!