It was a system admin -- not a VBForums/vBulletin admin. It was done on the server. I'd prefer to have them fix the problem -- so that it is less likely to happen again .

If it doesn't get updated early tomorrow, then I'll see what backups I have on my machine of the buttons and icons, and I'll put them back.

((I'm not sure how you would prevent a system admin at the server level from overwriting values in a directory being that they have writes to change file permissions and everything.))

Brad