no smileys :-(

Do the smilies show up as the text or just nothing?

Firefox or IE? IE will display a red X if it’s a broken image, FF will display the ALT text. View the source, if it is trying to display the image but it’s just a 404, then check your smilies path and etc.

If it truely is just displaying text, then double check your smilie aliases (i.e. :) to grin.gif or whatever).

You can either edit /wp-includes/vars.php or even better, add something like this to your wp-config.php:

$wpsmiliestrans = array(
' :)' => 'icon_smile.gif',
' :D' => 'icon_biggrin.gif',
' :-D' => 'icon_biggrin.gif',
':grin:' => 'icon_biggrin.gif',
' :)' => 'icon_smile.gif',
' :-)' => 'icon_smile.gif',
':smile:' => 'icon_smile.gif',
' :(' => 'icon_sad.gif',
' :-(' => 'icon_sad.gif',
':sad:' => 'icon_sad.gif',
' :o' => 'icon_surprised.gif',
' :-o' => 'icon_surprised.gif',
':eek:' => 'icon_surprised.gif',
' 8O' => 'icon_eek.gif',
' 8-O' => 'icon_eek.gif',
':shock:' => 'icon_eek.gif',
' :?' => 'icon_confused.gif',
' :-?' => 'icon_confused.gif',
' :???:' => 'icon_confused.gif',
' 8)' => 'icon_cool.gif',
' 8-)' => 'icon_cool.gif',
':cool:' => 'icon_cool.gif',
':lol:' => 'icon_lol.gif',
' :x' => 'icon_mad.gif',
' :-x' => 'icon_mad.gif',
':mad:' => 'icon_mad.gif',
' :P' => 'icon_razz.gif',
' :-P' => 'icon_razz.gif',
':razz:' => 'icon_razz.gif',
':oops:' => 'icon_redface.gif',
':cry:' => 'icon_cry.gif',
':evil:' => 'icon_evil.gif',
':twisted:' => 'icon_twisted.gif',
':roll:' => 'icon_rolleyes.gif',
':wink:' => 'icon_wink.gif',
' ;)' => 'icon_wink.gif',
' ;-)' => 'icon_wink.gif',
':!:' => 'icon_exclaim.gif',
':?:' => 'icon_question.gif',
':idea:' => 'icon_idea.gif',
':arrow:' => 'icon_arrow.gif',
' :|' => 'icon_neutral.gif',
' :-|' => 'icon_neutral.gif',
':neutral:' => 'icon_neutral.gif',
':mrgreen:' => 'icon_mrgreen.gif',
);

And your smilies should be in /wp-images/smilies/.

If the smilies are showing up as text check that you have the ‘Convert emoticons like 🙂 and 😛 to graphics on display’ under Options -> Write

Coolio.

Can we get a link to your test site? That’ll help us troubleshoot.

I’m off for the night but I’ll check back tomorrow to see if a solution has been posted.

That is really weird. Your smilies directory is fine: http://cnm.eotsmedia.com/wp-images/smilies/

My guess is that somehow the option is not being set right.

May I suggest installing WP yourself and not via a 3rd party script? Always best to do these things yourself with the official installer.