You should be editing your templates from the Admin Control panel, as they are stored in the MySQL database. Those who know what they are doing can edit them directly at the database.

here is a very qick response to your email hack request. I haven't tested or used it.

Go to your Contol panel
options, change options

enableemail
Switch to no.

In these templates:
newthread
newreply
editpost

Remove this line

<BR><INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="email" VALUE="yes" $emailchecked> <B>Email Notification:</B> emails sent to you whenever someone replies. Only registered users are eligible.

After doing this you may or maynot find other places in which this needs to be removed, just go to that template and remove this line.

I don't know any other way to quickly upload and install all your smilies.

Your forumdisplay template is where your title image is setup, you can add a table there, below the titleimage and fivelinks.

Have a good look at that template, you should be able to see how it works.