No. They are not back. The OP is presumably talking about icons that appear on the forum index pages.

For example, this one is missing right now: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/forum...cons/icon5.gif

On the index page, it displays as: X question

edit to add: The situation is changing from one second to the next. They appear and then disappear again.

edit to add: The links to the gifs are changing. The question mark is now: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon5.gif

That one is working. The first link that I posted was not, because the URL had contained "/forum/forum/" by mistake instead of just "/forum/" which is correct.