Quote Originally Posted by highlandtide View Post
vB has an automated system for favicon. ...
I'm not buying that as an answer.

What I will believe is that newer browsers are automatically looking for the favicon in the root and upon finding it will display it. W3C discourage this method: http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon

Turns out that the mechanism I suggested in the op is only partially correct according to w3c page. On the other hand, my method is described in a Wikipedia article referenced by that very same w3c page above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon. Go figure.

I suspect that a standards compliant browser correctly, will not display favicons unless directed to do so by the appropriately included code in the displayed page. Perhaps that is why I don't see the favicon.

Do a test. Put those two lines in a test page and I'll tell you if I see our favorite favicon.