Here is a pretty good emoticon site (click on smilies on the left and then english on the upper right) http://www.addis-welt.de/
and I use imageshack to host it http://www.imageshack.us/. Important to use the "direct link" after you click on "host it"
I have them both set up as Object dock icons for quick access, and of course I have saved all of my favorite emotes in a subfolder in My Pictures.
I'm looking forward to the tute! If you need more info, just e-mail me sleeping-dragon at comcast.net