I'm having an issue with the way products are handled in Magento. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
If I have a configurable product called "OMEGA" and the simple products in OMEGA are a,b,c I don't want a,b,c to be displayed on the SEARCH or CATALOG. But if I set to NOT VISIBLE individually and the simple product is out stock, when I try to submit OMEGA with the simple out of stock product I get a "PAGE NOT FOUND" because it's trying to redirect to the simple product that is not visible.
My question is this. How would I not show any simple product if it is attached to a configurable product and have it not display an error message saying page not found if being selected from the configurable product.