Hi Viz! Thanks! I'll tell you what! It took me a bunch of little failures throughout several parts of the day to get there. I had to erase a number of posts when all it got me was an html code for the smilies.
I took Binks' advice, and got to Smiley Extras. What I needed to figure out was once I opened the smilies menu, I needed to choose one smilie by name, double-click on the name of the smilie, and it would appear into the posts.
If I can do it, you can too!