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First, to help out, though there is no search box present, you literally can just type Windows Media Player and it will find it right away, and I think you can pin it to Start Screen. I think the reason why Microsoft took it out was because the Search bar is so ubiquitous and search in general is that it doesn't need to be there, that might need to change though...for obvious reasons...
To shutdown, it's different too. I was doing the same thing for a few days until I realized you click on Settings from the Charms bar when you hover over the Start button, then from there, you click on the power icon and you have you power choices there.
I've been using Windows 8 as my main OS since it came out, and I've my tweaking that it can allow and I say, for a desktop OS, it's refreshing and more useful. I can find all sorts of programs faster and visually. On my monitor, Start Screen can show up to 50 small tiles, right now I have 44, all in one screen view. In Windows 7, with a giant start menu, I can only view 38 links before I have to scroll down. That, my friends, is progress.