Favicons revisited

My drupal logs are still being filled with the "favicon not found" error message so I'm trying a new solution:

[Adding the favicon] to drupal with a theme using the phptemplate engine is easy. Just upload the favicon.ico file to the base directory of your theme. The same directory your style.css file is in. Drupal will automatically detect it and do the work to make it display on your site. From Matt Farina - Tech / Faith / Life

So, I have removed the favicon from the /file directory where drupal uploaded automatically and manually uploaded it to base directory of the pushbutton theme as recommended. Early indications are good that this might have worked. The favicon is still appearing in my browser but I'll see what the logs looks like tomorrow.

My question: If its this easy, why doesn't drupal automatically put the favicon in the correct folder?

I am also experimenting with the blockquote html tag in this post. I like the look of it.