Thanks for the input everyone... I agree that few frames seem to be missing... if that wasn't enough, there was a still smiley that I wanted to revive... but every time I add it to the messenger, it appears TINY unlike how it used to appear and how it appears in my chat log... I changed the format to jpg, bmi, gif, etc etc nothing helped...
I guess there is still a lot of work to be done before we can have a messenger with animating smileys in chat logs