Make Smileys work with WYSIWYG editors

I've been a long time Smileys user and it works great with BUEditor. However, I'm working on making the jump to WYSIWYG and have run into the problem that others have of clicking the smiley not working. The issues I've found have been for Drupal 5 and are either neglected or closed, so I'm opening a feature request for making this work in Drupal 6.

I don't know javascript, unfortunately, but am willing to help with testing and any PHP coding needed to get this done as I really want to make this combination work for my site. I'm using the WYSIWYG module along with CKEditor so that's the combination I can test.

What needs to be done to get this working "out of the box"?

Thanks,

Michelle