Goofy smilie question...

Again, did a search and found nothing...
I know there's several animated smilies available here, I've seen them do their stuff on other people's computers. But they won't do their tricks on MY machine!! What program am I missing? I have the current version of Flash...

It's almost 2 in the morning and I'm bored. Can you tell?

 

I wouldn't even know how!!! If I have, it was completely accidental...

Where would I check for such settings?

I'm not the most facile with computers. This thing does what I want it to for the most part; I don't fiddle with it, lest I inadvertently change a setting that affects some program I use a lot...

It's probably just some stupid easy fix I need...any suggestions?