Re: Quicktags show in wiki edit, but nowhere else.
When you say that you've emptied the cache, do you mean the browser cache or the tiki cache? In either case, empty the one that you didn't empty before, just to be completely sure.
The only other possibility I can think of is that you've somehow deleted the quicktags for all features except wikis. Currently, you have to specify the quicktags used for each feature individually.
Do quicktags show up for forums under quicktag admin? (You can use the drop-down filter to quickly see if there are quicktags defined for forums).
Other than that, if you have modified template files while customizing your site, you may have inadvertently changed something to cause quicktags to not be displayed.
I've not experienced this issue.
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