Restoring my avatar was a bit of a fight for me, too. Just resizing a jpeg to 80 by 80 pixels in MS-Picture Manager didn't seem to satisfy the upload filters. I even tried making it B&W to further reduce the size. I ended up using an on-line utility to recreate my avatar (just a plain, cropped image - no animation!). The web site is: http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/

Or click here:

ShrinkPictures Avatar Creator

The sight seemed safe and simple to use. This might help folks having a little trouble coming up with a suitably sized avatar.


John R. Whitney
East Aurora, New York
"Music is a Life Skill"
http://www.soundclick.com/johnrobertwhitney