[sv1cec]

You are saying that the buttons show up in some of the posts and not in others? This may be due because one of the posts is by a moderator or an administrator and the other is by a simple user. Have you set your Warning Options, and define which groups are your admins, mods and smods properly?

As for your private.php, no the error is probably in line 1700, not 1699, or there is a ; missing from the line before 1700 (comments do not count check the line before the comment, if it has a ;