SharePoint Search Results Page for Unathenticated Users

We created a custom search results page for a public-facing web site built on WSS 3.0. The search results page and its site collection were correctly configured for anonymous access, but a search was redirecting anonymous users to the login page. The answer was to remove the Inherits tag from the Page directive at the top of the search results page.

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This post led me to the answer:
http://blogs.objectsharp.com/cs/blogs/max/archive/2008/02/20/sharepoint-search-and-anonymous-users.aspx