Highlighting text and bold/underline/italicize does not work!

[phpnewbieguy]

I pray that someone can help me before I slam my head through my computer monitor. I've spent two days and 14 hours trying to figure this out. 

 

I set up a new forum using phpBB 2.0.22. The highlighting and bold/italics/underline function is not working correctly. On other phpBB forums, if I am writing a paragraph and decide to underline a word for emphasis, I simply highlight that word, click the "U" button up top, and it inserts the underlined tags around the highlighted word, making it underlined. I noticed this forum works that way as well. Unfortunately, my forum does not. 

 

If I highlight a word and then click "U" for underline, it does not insert the underline tags around the word, but rather places the tags at the end of the text. So instead of looking like this:

 

I am trying to underline some text

 

it instead looks like this:

 

I am trying to underline some text [b ] [ /b]

 

I added spaces in the underline tags in the example so it would show up as tags.

 

Is there any way to fix this?

 

Also, I've noticed (on my forum) that if I put the cursor somewhere in my post and attempt to insert an emoticon/smiley, it places the smiley face at the end of the text, and not where I want it. Example. I will post some text below and then go back and place the cursor in between two words and insert a smiley face:

 

I utterly despise tech stuff  because it confuses me. Luckily, there are cool tech people out there to help.

 

It placed the emoticon properly. On my forum, if I clicked between the words "stuff" and "because" and then clicked a smiley face, here's what it would look like instead of what I intended.

 

I utterly despise tech stuff  because it confuses me. Luckily, there are cool tech people out there to help. 

 

See how that screws it up?  It insists on putting the smiley at the end.

 

Please keep in mind that when it comes to computers and software, I am a total 'tard and need things explained in detail, otherwise it'll be like Sanskrit to me. 

 

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.