OK, I'll close this now.
Anyone who wants to, is of course, welcome to stay, and we'll try to sort something so that all parties are happy.
Regarding the avatars, I don't understand why you guys are having problems - although I know that many other members do have issues too.
It may well have been the file size limiter, which, when I looked into it this morning was set at 7,000 bytes, which I think is less than 7k. So I have now reset the limit to 12999 bytes which should be good for about 12k - If you are still having problems, and there is an avatar you really want, and it meets our conditions, just e-mail it to me and I'll get it done.
Rich