Disable Smilies Menu and Auto-smilies

First, I am not the owner or administrator of my forum; I'm just a member of the relevant raiding alliance.

I am not a fan of smilies, especially animated ones. I don't want a smiley menu every time I post, and I don't want my own ASCII smileys like :o) getting turned into something by the auto-smiley system.

I have Smilies set to "No" in my user preferences - how do I disable them utterly for my forum user?

From what I read in the FAQ, it looked like it was only a global setting, but I don't want to ruin everyone else's fun - I just want to turn it off so I don't have smilies showing up everywhere in my own posts.