I had a similar problem when I was using MS Internet Explorer. It became a real problem as I was a moderator at another site at the time, and it effected other things as well. I could copy and paste the smilies or type in the code for them, but that was a pita. It was only one of a few things that finally got me to abandon IE and switch to Firefox.

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