the builtin richtext editor in wordpress actually is an earlier version of the moxiecode’s tinyMCE javascript editor with quite a number of buttons disabled. having used raj prasad’s editormonkey plugin for the last couple of weeks, i was looking for a simpler way of integrating tinyMCE — only to find out that wordpress 2.+ had it builtin in the first place 
only, as i said with a number of buttons and plugins disabled, among them the table plugin and the smilie (aka emotions) plugin…oh, and the reason i was interested in tinyMCE was the WPG2 wordpress–gallery plugin that allows me to include photos from my ever growing photo collection directly into wordpress posts, which, you guessed it, didn’t work too well together with editormonkey (in fact, it didn’t work at all).
a bit of googling aroundresearch led me to assaf arkin’s avanced-wysiwyg plugin which did the job just fine (local copy available here, the download link on labnotes.org site seems to be broken).
adding back in the smilies was a bit more tricky, just dumping in the current tinyMCE plugin did not do the trick 
… it turns out version 1.45 of tinyMCE is the version used in wordpress 2.0.2. taking the “emotions” plugin from that one does the job. happy camper 
