Problem formatting Output from Search Widget

I am just starting in Flex Viewer and am having trouble getting my Search Widget result features to be formatted the way I need them to be. Usually I just copy and edit code from elsewhere but have been unable to find any that changes the output of the Search Widget.
Seems no matter what I do, I still get the default red output color and alpha.
My code looks like this (top lines not shown):

<field name="DeedOut" alias="DeedOut"/>
<field name="LandType" alias="LandType"/>
<field name="NotesAll" alias="NotesAll"/>
</fields>
<orderbyfields>DateIn ASC</orderbyfields>
</layer>
</layers>
<symbols>
<simplefillsymbol>
color="0x99CCFF"
alpha="0.2"
</simplefillsymbol>
</symbols>

</configuration>

Can anyone help?
-Brian Hall