Strings of 2 characters or less causes Super Search timeout

Question

I'm having an issue very similar to Ryan Masuga as seen here: http://www.solspace.com/forums/viewthread/3520/

I am running EE 2.7.3 and Super Search 2.1.3. In the original post I saw a mention to pagination, I wonder if that might be causing it? I'm using AB Pagination 1.6.3.

Here's my site: http://llumcmurrieta.org/

Basically a search for POB seams to spin forever and eventually timeout. Whereas a search for "POB" (with the quotes) works.

Here is my results block:

{exp:super_search:results
    site="internet"
    channel="pages|service_lines|bucket_services|bucket_treatments|bucket_conditions|news|pob_directory"
    exclude_entry_ids="618|935|871"
    highlight_keywords="strong"
    smart_excerpt="yes"
    paginate="bottom"
    limit="10"
    relevance_proximity="yes"
    search_words_within_words="no"
    fuzzy_weighting="yes"
    relevance="title=1+services_tags=5+ct_tags=5+page_keywords=5+services_introduction=2+ct_about=1+body=1+count_words_within_words"
    {!-- services_about and ct_sub_sections cause an error with super search -- see discussion: http://www.solspace.com/forums/viewthread/17419/ --}
}
  {if count=="1"}<ul class="global-search search-results main-results">{/if}

  {embed="search/_result" id="{entry_id}" excerpt="{excerpt}" relevance="{relevance_count}"}

  {if count==total_results}</ul>{/if}
  {if super_search_no_results}
      <p>Sorry, we couldn't find anything to match what you are looking for.</p>
  {/if}
  {paginate}
  <style>.global-search.search-results.main-results {padding-top:61px !important;padding-bottom:60px !important;}</style>
  <div id="top-pagination" class="pagination-wrap pagination-top">
    <span class="count">
      Showing <strong>{abp_entry_from}</strong>-<strong>{abp_entry_to}</strong> results of {abp_total_entries} total
    </span>
  </div>
  <div id="bottom-pagination" class="pagination-wrap pagination-bottom">
    <nav class="pagination">

      {if abp_has_previous}
      <span class="prev">
        <a rel="previous" href="{abp_previous_link}" class="page-previous" title="Go to page {abp_previous_page_num}">&laquo; Previous</a>
      </span>
      {/if}
      {if abp_current_page_num_liber > 3}
      <span class="page">
        <a href="{abp_first_link}">1</a>
      </span>
      <span class="page">...</span>
      {/if}

      {abp_pages padding="2" initial_size="5"}

      {if abp_is_current}
      <span class="page current">{abp_num}</span>
      {if:else}
      <span class="page">
        <a href="{abp_link}">{abp_num}</a>
      </span>
      {/if}

      {/abp_pages}

      {if abp_has_next}
      <span class="next">
        <a rel="next" href="{abp_next_link}" class="page-next">Next &raquo;</a>
      </span>
      {/if}
      {if abp_last_page_not_linked}
      <span class="page">...</span>
      <span class="page">
        <a href="{abp_last_link}">{abp_total_pages}</a>
      </span>
      {/if}
    </nav>
  </div>
  {/paginate}
{/exp:super_search:results}

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!