Thanks, I enjoy using them, but CF isn't too keen on my pics, "takes up too much broadband width" was the comment I believe, perhaps they mean the large ones, mine are quite small smilies, having said that, I did notice tht one member used a really large comical animated one.
As I said, the small ones are OK apparently, it's the "over the top" large ones that give technical problems, I wish I could trace who used the large animated one, I'm sure it wasn't you though.
This may be helpful for some (there are free and pro versions I think it was in my comp. magazine some time ago): http://www.iespell.com/
Shame they don't do one for firefox