Yes, I've confirmed that the announcements part of the board is set up so that you can't use BBCode or smilies unless you're an administrator. Please let me know if you're unable to use that on other parts of the forum, and I'll change the permissions.

I think it might be this thread - I'm logged in as my mortal user and I'm stuck with BBCode OFF, but I can use BBCode on other threads. Can you try it elsewhere? (Do you get the BBCode checkbox if you're posting in other threads?)