Yes, I can see them now. And don't worry about being a n00b, cuz despite what some may want you to believe, we were ALL there are one time!
OK, looking in the page source to see the location for the image that should be in column next to Announcements, I see this:
HTML Code:
<img src="images/styles/autumn/statusicon/forum_new.gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_7" />
However, going to http://www.forum.yakkityyaks.com/images/styles/autumn/statusicon/forum_new.gif
I am getting "The requested URL /images/styles/autumn/statusicon/forum_new.gif was not found on this server." So, the image does not exist right there. So, the question is, where have you put the images?