emoticon help?

Maybe someone here could offer a little help?

Ever since I upgraded to version 0.9.0, I have had no emoticons. If I right-
click in the outgoing text area, the little box is completely empty. If I type 
";-)" for instance, that's what I get. Same for someone sending a smiley to 
me, I get the text...

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times and have gone through 
a couple of upgrades since the problem showed up. Nothing has fixed it 
yet. And it did used to work previous to the 0.9 versions...

I'm running on win ME (sorry)...

Any suggestions would be very appreciated...

Rich...


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