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Have you tried to do a NONincremental search instead, 

ie C-s <enter> "searchstring"

>Thanks for the suggestion of outline-mode. I tried it out and also tried 
>outline-magic.el (a nice improvement). However, it's not perfect since 
>isearch opens sections that are folded in. So if I'm looking eg. for my 
>google groups password I might use isearch and type in g o o g l e. 
>However, the first character, g, might open a section that I wanted to
>keep closed.