You can turn them off yourself. Just go edit your profile, under Preferences, there's something called "Always enable Smilies". I think if you turn it off, it should correct part of your problem...
Or maybe just check the box under your post saying "Disable Smilies in this post" would do?
Just a little test: :) Test smilie :)
Edit: Yup, seems like checking the little box under the post works...
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