The noscript tag seems to not play well with frames. I added it to the center 
row (@template=help-list) where the results table is displayed.

The noscript text was not displayed in firefox (but was visible in devtools).
It was displayed in chrome, but it was scrolled off the top of the screen and
not visible to the user by default. In neither case did selecting a checkbox
cause the id number to be placed in the bottom submit text input. So javascript
*was* turned off.

Also I discovered that a frameset can only contain frame tag/elements. Anything
else seems to be ignored. I tried putting the noscript above the frameset
in user.help.html.