Customizing WP-Grins ?!?

Hello there,

firstly please excuse the bad language – its a time ago since i had to speak english! I am from Germany – so please simply ignore my mistakes if you could understand the meaning ??

Back to topic:
I am using the wp-grins plugin of Alex King on my Blog. As you can there see, the smilies are displayed over the textarea of the comment-loop. This is the standard way of displaying it – i did not added any code within the Comment-loop of my comments.php! But that is a very long list and i still want to add some more smilies.

The questions:

#1
Is it possible to not show this smilies as a list (as it now is) but as a button (e.g. within the quicktags-bar or somewhere else within the comment-loop)? If yes, how could that work an what to do?

#2
Is it generally possible to place this smilies somewhere else within the comment-loop (~ignoring the first question)

I hope you all could understand what I wrote down. With this hopes – thanks for answers!