I am obviously missing something which is staring me in my face. But here goes...

How do you change the icons in vB?

I have added a couple of new styles, and they are all drawing their icons from the default icon set, rather than their funky styled ones. I have check all of the image options, none of which mention icons, and am starting to get frustrated by it. So any help would be apprecaited.

Admin control panel --> Style Manager --> Style --> All Style Options
Then go down to where you see Image Paths and make sure the path to each of those folders that contain your custom icons are correct, ie;
/forumname/images/stylename/buttons

You may have to preface the path with the /forumname to get them to appear properly.

vbulletin has a built-in icon and smilie manager - CPs are located towards the bottom of the menu panel on the left. all you have to do is upload additional files to the images/icons & images/smilies folders on your server. the CP lets you delete, add and order the new files so you won't actually lose the original set.