Now, I'll see if I can explain this to you w/o messing up.
To put emoticons on your posts, go to bottom of your window, click on the box that says, Switch to Full Reply Screen. That will bring up a screen with the bar on top of it. You will see the very first icon on the left is a 'smiley face' Click on that and it will bring up all the different emoticons.
Pick the one you want and it will go to the space where your cursor last was. It will appear on your post as if you typed it in. To check how they look go to the Preview Post box and it will show you the picture of it.
Once in a great while the picture won't show up in the preview post. If that happens, take your cursor and push or pull emoticon one way or the other and the pic will show.
