If you stumble upon a situation when clicking on search results links brings you to a list item view form (DispForm.aspx?ID=<itemid>) instead of an actual document, be sure to check that the extension for the problematic document configured in the search center as a valid type. The problem most commonly arises for non-standard (read non- Microsoft Office) file types. Below are the steps to check:

• Go to Central Administration and navigate to an SSP admin site
• Click on the Search Administration link under the Search group
• On the left-hand of the screen, select the File Types link
• Confirm that the extension for your document appears on the list of file types

Any documents newly discovered by the crawler will be recorded correctly in the index with an actual URL to the document and not it's view form. It will usually take three full recrawls before the links for existing documents are updated in the index.