[Boss-Hog]

Hello, I've been running vBXirc for several months now with minimal problems. I am having one small problem and have a quick question:

As I mentioned a few pages back in this thread, I am not getting the smilies to appear at all. The option is definitely turned on within my settings and I haven't modified any of the chat templates in any way. Besides me, all the other users I talked to do not see a box either.

Finally, some of my users have complained that's it's too hard to tell if you have an incoming private message from another user in chat because there's no beeping sound like there is in mIRC. Ideally, I'd like to have incoming messages pop up in a new window but I imagine that would be too much work. If, upon receiving a new message, it would beep or flash their nickname, that would also do the trick. Any ideas? Thanks a lot.