Actually, there is one aspect of the new smileys that works better in the new forum than the old one. In the old one, if you put a smiley at the very end of your post, which is pretty common, and then you did a preview, when you did the submit, the smiley was broken because the space at the end got stripped off by the old forum. The new one does not do that. The new one appears to be less sensitive about the smileys and the white space, but as the rigorous testing above has shown, the results are not entirely predictable. 