User Profile Problem with Layout and Search

I have two questions that I have not been able to solve. I'm a new to Drupal so it might be forest for the trees situation.

1.) I have added the following fields to user profiles:
First Name
Last Name
Location
These appear at the end of the user profile page when creating an account I would like them at the top of the page. Is it possible to do this?

2.) I would like to set the default search to look at the user profile first and specifically these added fields. But I get kicked to the Advanced Search and even when I look in the user profile it still doesn't come up the the correct search criteria. It seems that the search is only looking at nodes and not the user profiles or added fields to the profile. Is there any way to setup the search to include user profiles (including the added fields above) as part of the default search instead of going into the advanced search (which doesn't appear to search the added fields in the profile)?

Thanks
gk