Windows Live Messenger Emoticons not show?

I haven't done anything to the settings, the emoticons just ceased to show one random day. :( Stock ad well as custom emoticons cannot be shown, but other people whom I chat to can see them.

In addition, do not tell me I need to go to options and check for the ticks, because that is the first thing that i checked when this happened, and, to my surprised, did not fix anything at all. I have the newest WLM and Plus addon, everything else seems to work fine.