Publish not updating properly? - meteor

I'm having trouble getting Meteor.publish to update in response to a changing form field. The first call to publish seems to stick, so the query operates in that subset until the page is reloaded.
I followed the approach in this post, but am having no luck whatsoever.
Any help greatly appreciated.
In lib:
SearchResults = new Meteor.Collection("Animals");
function getSearchResults(query) {
re = new RegExp(query, "i");
return SearchResults.find({$and: [ {is_active: true}, {id_species: {$regex: re}} ] }, {limit: 10});
}
In client:
Session.set('query', null);
Template.searchQuery.events({
'keyup .query' : function (event, template) {
query = template.find('.query').value
Session.set("query", query);
}
});
Meteor.autosubscribe(function() {
if (Session.get("query")) {
Meteor.subscribe("search_results", Session.get("query"));
}
});
Template.searchResults.results = function () {
return getSearchResults(Session.get("query"));
}
On server:
Meteor.publish("search_results", getSearchResults);
Template:
Search for Animals
<body>
{{> searchQuery}}
{{> searchResults}}
</body>
<template name="searchQuery">
<form>
<label>Search</label>
<input type="text" class="query" />
</form>
</template>
<template name="searchResults">
{{#each results}}
<div>
{{_id}}
</div>
{{/each}}
</template>
Update [WRONG]
Apparently, the issue is that the collection I was working with was (correctly) generated outside of Meteor, but Meteor doesn't properly support Mongo's ObjectIds. Context here and related Stackoverflow question.
Conversion code shown there, courtesy antoviaque:
db.nodes.find({}).forEach(function(el){
db.nodes.remove({_id:el._id});
el._id = el._id.toString();
db.nodes.insert(el);
});
Update [RIGHT]
So as it turns out, it was an issue with RegExp / $regex. This thread explains. Instead of:
function getSearchResults(query) {
re = new RegExp(query, "i");
return SearchResults.find({$and: [ {is_active: true}, {id_species: {$regex: re}} ] }, {limit: 10});
}
At the moment, one needs to do this instead:
function getSearchResults(query) {
// Assumes query is regex without delimiters e.g., 'rot'
// will match 2nd & 4th rows in Tim's sample data below
return SearchResults.find({$and: [ {is_active: true}, {id_species: {$regex: query, $options: 'i'}} ] }, {limit: 10});
}
That was fun.
PS -- The ddp-pre1 branch has some ObjectId functionality (SearchResults = new Meteor.Collection("Animals", {idGeneration: "MONGO"});)

Here's my working example:
UPDATE the original javascript given was correct. The problem, as noted in the comments, turned out to be that meteor doesn't yet support ObjectIds.
HTML:
<body>
{{> searchQuery }}
{{> searchResults}}
</body>
<template name="searchQuery">
<form>
<label>Search</label>
<input type="text" class="query" />
</form>
</template>
<template name="searchResults">
{{#each results}}
<div>
{{id_species}} | {{name}} - {{_id}}
</div>
{{/each}}
</template>
Javascript:
Animals = new Meteor.Collection("Animals");
function _get(query) {
re = new RegExp(query, "i");
console.log("rerunning query: " + query);
return Animals.find({$and: [ {is_active: true}, {id_species: {$regex: re}} ] }, {limit: 10});
};
if (Meteor.isClient) {
Session.set("query", "");
Meteor.autosubscribe(function() {
Meteor.subscribe("animals", Session.get("query"));
});
Template.searchQuery.events({
'keyup .query' : function (event, template) {
query = template.find('.query').value
Session.set("query", query);
}
});
Template.searchResults.results = function () {
return _get(Session.get("query"));
}
}
if (Meteor.isServer) {
Meteor.startup(function() {
if (Animals.find().count() === 0) {
Animals.insert({name: "panda", is_active: true, id_species: 'bear'});
Animals.insert({name: "panda1", is_active: true, id_species: 'bearOther'});
Animals.insert({name: "panda2", is_active: true, id_species: 'bear'});
Animals.insert({name: "panda3", is_active: true, id_species: 'bearOther'});
}
});
Meteor.publish("animals", _get);
}

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