They all seem to be there to me.

According to IROKONESS, aliens abducted them... though it appears [from the above smileys] the ransom has been paid.

Next it'll be our avatars... apparently for experiments.

So if your avatar starts to behave strangely over the next few days..... it'll be the anal probes.

Oh okay, what's happened then is that the extra smileys have been added, but no longer are mapped to the text.  Thanks, it's good to have better smileys!

  .....    <---------------  as long as those two are there we're OK ....

 is the only one that truly matters.

lol that one really looks like you too zu..

For "colon, close bracket" and "equals, close bracket" (I have to spell them like that or they will turn into smileys like this ) and default smileys, on the Elemental board at least, the alternate smileys were used.  Also for "colon, dash, close bracket" for the wink.  However I didn't know that they were already available on a button in the smileys panel, so thanks for that.

Quoting RedneckDude,

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I never even knew the smilies were gone, or the avatars, for that matter.  

That earned you your own smiley. 

I'll ask DigitalChet to make it for you...