SELECT FROM problemer

Hej
Jeg har problemer med at få mine scripts til at virke.

Følgende script har jeg gemt som search.htm:

<html>
<form method="post" action="http://www.xxxxx.dk/results.php" target="_blank">
<div align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td bordercolor="#000000">
<p align="center">
<select name="metode" size="1">
<option value="name">Name</option>
<option value="telephone">Telephone</option>
<option value="birthday">Birthday</option>
</select> <input type="text" name="search" size="25"> &nbsp;<br>
Search database: <input type="submit" value="Go!!" name="Go"></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</html>

Følgende script har jeg gemt som results.php:

<center>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td width="60"><b>id</b></td>
<td width="100"><b>name</b></td>
<td width="70"><b>telephone</b></td>
<td width="150"><b>birthday</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<? $hostname = "XXXXX";
$username = "XXXXX";
$password = "XXXXX";
$usertable = "details";
$dbName = "XXXXX";

MYSQL_CONNECT($hostname, $username, $password) OR DIE("DB connection unavailable");
@mysql_select_db( "$dbName") or die( "Unable to select database");
?>
<?
//error message (not found message)begins
$XX = "No Record Found, to search again please close this window";
//query details table begins
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM details WHERE $metode LIKE '%$search%' LIMIT 0, 50");
while ($row = @mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
$variable1=$row["id"];
$variable2=$row["name"];
$variable3=$row["telephone"];
$variable4=$row["birthday"];
//table layout for results

print ("<tr>");
print ("<td>$variable1</td>");
print ("<td>$variable2</td>");
print ("<td>$variable3</td>");
print ("<td>$variable4</td>");
print ("</tr>");
}
//below this is the function for no record!!
if (!$variable1)
{
print ("$XX");
}
//end
?>
</table>
</center>

Jeg har oprettet en DB med de relevante felter i phpmyadmin og har også indlagt noget data jeg kan søge efter. Når jeg så kører scriptet, så kommer der en vindue frem med teksten "No Record Found, to search again please close this window"...

og jeg forstår ikke hvorfor??? Hjælp plz!!! :)