Smileys and emoticons...

Hey everyone!

Im a newbie on this forum so if I should have posted somewhere else, I apologize!

I was hoping for some tips on clean and simple smileys to use in iChat and Skype.. I like to keep my computer rather clean with colors and graphics that I like..emoticons aren't fitting really.. If I just chat in my browser in gmail there are some really clean smileys without extra colors. Animated just once and very simple, I love them!

Does anyone have any idea where I can get such? I have disabled smileys but I get a bit tired of these cryptic (Y) brackets (?) in the messages.. I just get them as text and not really the message.. hard to explain..

Anyone?