diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/regression/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/FailingTest.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/regression/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/FailingTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7ec9eae03a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/regression/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/FailingTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
+ * 
+ * Contributors:
+ *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+/*
+ * Created on Nov 1, 2004
+ */
+package org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests;
+
+import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
+import junit.framework.Test;
+import junit.framework.TestResult;
+
+
+/**
+ * @author aniefer
+ */
+public class FailingTest implements Test {
+    private Test test = null;
+    private int bugNum = -1;
+    public FailingTest( Test test, int bugNumber ){
+        this.test = test;
+        this.bugNum = bugNumber;
+    }
+    /* (non-Javadoc)
+     * @see junit.framework.Test#countTestCases()
+     */
+    public int countTestCases() {
+        return 1;
+    }
+    /* (non-Javadoc)
+     * @see junit.framework.Test#run(junit.framework.TestResult)
+     */
+    public void run( TestResult result ) {
+        result.startTest( test );
+        
+        TestResult r = new TestResult();
+        test.run( r );
+        if( r.errorCount() == 0 && r.failureCount() == 0 )
+        {
+            String err = "Unexpected success"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+            if( bugNum != -1 )
+                err += ", bug #" + bugNum; //$NON-NLS-1$
+            result.addFailure( test, new AssertionFailedError( err ) );
+        }
+        
+        result.endTest( test );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/regression/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/SearchRegressionTests.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/regression/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/SearchRegressionTests.java
index 105f89633b5..11bace3645d 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/regression/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/SearchRegressionTests.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/regression/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/SearchRegressionTests.java
@@ -149,22 +149,19 @@ public class SearchRegressionTests extends BaseTestFramework implements ICSearch
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testVarFieldDeclaration") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testMethodAll") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testVarReference") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
-        //defect75901
-        //suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testVarDeclarationArgument") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
-        //defect72735
-        //suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testVarReferenceInitializer") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testVarDefinition") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testFieldDefinition") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testNamespaceReference") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testUnionDeclaration") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testClassStructDeclaration") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testNamespaceDeclaration") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
-        //defect76169
-        //suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testMethodReferenceInitializer") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testClassStructReference") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
         suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testFieldReference") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
-        //defect76203
-        //suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testNestedFieldReference") ); //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+        suite.addTest( new FailingTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testMethodReferenceInitializer"), 76169 ) ); //defect76169 //$NON-NLS-1$ 
+        suite.addTest( new FailingTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testVarDeclarationArgument"), 75901 ) );     //defect75901 //$NON-NLS-1$
+        suite.addTest( new FailingTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testVarReferenceInitializer"), 72735 ) );    //defect72735 //$NON-NLS-1$
+        suite.addTest( new FailingTest( new SearchRegressionTests("testNestedFieldReference"), 76203 ) );       //defect76203//$NON-NLS-1$
         
         if( cleanup )
             suite.addTest( new SearchRegressionTests( "cleanupProject" ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$