The only way to fix the edit bug, I have found is to enable HTML in your forums. I did this and the fix for illeagal HTML tags fix in the ubb_lib.cgi, that is posted in this thread. Yes the "paper clip" icon is for uploading files so you would have to search the code for and delete it from the public_new_topic_form.pl, public_edit_post.pl and the public_new_reply_form.pl
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