[AI4AI]

I'm supposedly a fairly intelligent person, but...

a) there are no .gif images in my smilies directory, they're already .png (vBulletin 4.1.3)

b) I saved what was there off to another directory and placed these new smilies in their place.

- same old smilies appear on the forum, and in the editor drop-down.

c) I went into the AdminCP and edited each of the smilies in the set, basically changing nothing (because, as I said, they were already .png images)

- same old smilies appear on the forum, and in the editor drop-down.

c) I went into the AdminCP and edited each of the smilies in the set, changing them each to .gif and saving, then changing them to .png and saving again.

- same old smilies appear on the forum, and in the editor drop-down.

- in between the two changes/saves, I saw a "broken graphic" image (as expected) when there was no file (*.gif) by that name in the directory.

d) I stopped and restarted apache.

- same old smilies appear on the forum, and in the editor drop-down.

e) I reverted all of the above changes.

- same old smilies appear on the forum, and in the editor drop-down.



...so, what could be the issue?