I agree with you pjdkrunkt
well pjdkrunkt (difficult nickname by the way) you made a comment in kimberly’s theory that I thought about too.Lot’s of people who died like Cristian, Yemi, etc appeared “alive” at some point and i believe that smokey was every single one of them. I know most of you agree with me in that. Locke was dead too, so what if smokey uses his body to lead things where it wants? Ben was really sorry about killing his daughter and wanted to be judged. He confessed that to Locke and he really seemed sorry to me. Maybe this was the reason he never had to confess to the smoke;he already did by talking to it through Locke.Locke is different isn’t he? He never asked why he was killed just asked an apology.why? (He was dead of course, he deserves to behave different than usuall!!) but he seems to know exactly what to do now, and he disappeared exactly the time that smoke was doing its stuff!

It might be on purpose by the writers, but I always found it strange that Christian dies, comes back, is amazing awkward/mysterious, then Locke dies, comes back, and seems pretty much the same.