Nope, not at all.
And those things are still happening. Most smileys appear in the "Compose message" screen just as text, and lots of people have just a link called "X's avatar" instead of a pic.
There's also funny indentation in some of the forums, e.g. Colosseum. For instance, now I'm getting a "you have x posts in this thread" message in the leftmost row of threads, which makes the thread's line take up 3 or 4 regular lines (rows). It sounds nitpicking, but if I have 5 or 6 threads like that on one page, suddenly the number of threads displayed on one page is reduced to a few, and I have to keep scrolling and scrolling.
Again, don't mean to sound like I'm whining, I'm not. I can use the forums as they are, it's just a minor inconvenience, and if it can be fixed, that's great, if not, well, life still goes on ;)

thanks, Tosa