Refreshing your identity does nothing except change your path to the forums. It shouldn't ever change the content of the page. If it does, something very weird and suspicious is going on.It's possible that a very bad connection cut off part-way before the style got filled in (sometimes that happens to me), but other than that, the content should be identical. NoScript comes disabled by default. You must have clicked the button next to the address bar or something. I keep mine on, there's nothing wrong with it, just saying. And the smileys to respond to posts with don't show up in the "respond" WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor thingie unless javascript is on.