Quote Originally Posted by wsk View Post
What I will believe is that newer browsers are automatically looking for the favicon in the root and upon finding it will display it.
Absolutely correct. Which is why we replaced the default vBulletin favicon.ico with a Saltire image and then moved it from the forum directory to the main root.

I've just visited the X Marks home page with Firefox 2.0, Internet Exploder 7.0 <shudder> and Opera 9.02. The Saltire favicon.ico is properly displayed in all three browsers.