Trying to figure out what kind of topology change is needed to fix the "The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service." error

So, I have a test SP 2010 machine.

I have created a search center site collection with the appropriate enterprise template.

When I look at services on server, it shows the sharepoint foundation help search started.

However, it shows the sharepoint server search as stopped.

I click on start, and I get the message "Starting the Search Service on a server must be done within the contenxt of a search service application. Click OK to go to the Manager Service Applications page where you can create a new search service application or select a search service application and modify its topology."

So I click OK.

I see a Search Service Application, so I click on that.

The Crawl status says "All Errors" but it says there are 264,891 searchable items.

When I click on crawl log, I get an error saying the search service is offline.

So, then I guess there is something that needs to happen to the topology.

However, I don't know what it would be.

When I clock on Modify, I see an admin component, a crawl component, 3 databases and an index partition.

That's all that exists in terms of new.

The service connections are set to default with the Search Service Application selected.

The sharepoint server search 14 service is listed as disabled and I don't see a way to enable it.

In the event log, I am seeing: