I think this has more to do with gremlins than snakes. I fix the icon issue by logging out and then logging back in.
I also noticed that there is a time-traveling topic that is up higher in the list than it should be.
Oh well.
-Ryan
<sigh>
Well some of my posts are finally reappearing and now I've got that problem again where the system simultaneously thinks I am and am not logged in. It says "welcome pkscout" at the top but the actual forum icons look like they do if I'm not logged in.
So I'm posting this because posting seems to correct the problem. Hopefully I won't have to do this for too long though.

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