Hi,
Dredgying this up from other posts.
When we moved the site to a new location with a new firewall, some time ago. That firewall got mad our the avatar system the site uses, claiming there was some sort of illegal relinking going on and it started blocking the avatar images.
So, the best thing to do is to use [url=http://www.gravatar.com]gravatar.com[/url] It’s free and a tone of forums/discussion groups recognize it.
Create and account and you can then register email addresses and associated avatar images to that account. Any forum/site that knows about gravatar will then use the gravatar image associated with your login account as your avatar image.
Done.
Tizzy