1. Am guessing you're referring to the Posting Icon smilies, Artie. Those are part of the default UBBT 7.x package...and I've once again removed them.
2. The bullet in alternaut's sig not displaying correctly was 'cause the charset had reverted to iso-8859-1 (happens every upgrade/update). I've changed it back to UTF-8.
1. I noticed that you'd done that before I saw your post. (Those smilies were totally out of context here.)
2. Yeah... I remember the same thing happening last time. (With respect to 1., too.)