What's wrong with Mike's smilies? :
: I think they're cute!
But if you really dislike them, I wonder if there's a way for the user to decide in their profile upon a smiley scheme, so the user can decide to view the new, funkier smilies in posts, or the originals. I realise that the flexibility of custom functions is somewhat limited with YABB, but is it possible, Andi?