i fixed the smilies and posticon problem by adding a slash / in the edit smilies in the admin panel
also another problem
merging threads won't work with your shorter url
is it possible to show/display the real url in a small table on/under the thread or on the merge thread template
i.e. display something like please input the thread to merge in the format
http://animeboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=XXXX
where XXXX corresponds to
http://animeboards.com/tXXXX/s.html