and why is this one particular section of 7.x so anal?
like, if you want new mood icons, you just ftp them up. but you can't ftp graemlins, you have to manually import them through the admin, one by one. then, above and beyond that, you can't delete or change the top few graemlins, lest your boards explode(!!!)
The graemlins are more tricky because their is a database table associated with them that store the conversion, ubbcode, or shortcut. So, you can't just ftp them, as the information to trigger the smiley needs to go into the database.
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