By the way anyone (Ray) know why I can add smilies on the compose post page but that they don't appear in the post?
Strange, looking at the data that is actually in your post, the smiler image name is missing. There's a link, but it's only to the forum directory, and doesn't include the image filename.

I'll try it here, myself.

That worked. Brian, how are you adding the smileys? What do you "see" in the editor? I actually see the shortcut name like eek within colon chars.