It appears that at least 75 researchers are having the same problems with Google as I am, and there has also been a message on the Google problems board. Most people have had this problem about a week.
What is even more interesting is that two researchers sitting at separate computers in the same room will get wildly different search results.
I believe it may have something to do with this:
Google Blog–This is only a test
Andrew Kishner of ASK Consulting stated he was having the same problem, but was able to solve it by using an anonymizer. He uses Anonymouse, I tried it with Google Anon, and I found that my 12,900 hits for “Katherine E. Morrison” shrank to 41!
I do hope they fix it soon.