I am not sure why that happened- perhaps its just a gremlin. If you lose your post, the best way to find it is to click on your name( top right corner) and then click on your posts. By the way, the original post was in the Italy forum to start with.The emoticon problem is on a list of things to sort. I find the same if I am using my laptop- infact I can't even access most of the emoticons.

Nick I will ask the developers to take a look - maybe a small bug..:)

Thanks for the updates.