is it a spiced ham avatar? P.S. It will auto apply to every post you've ever made, you don't have to make a new post to test... You can just click "Your Posts" at the top right of the index and click on one of the topics. Are you uploading from the machine? If so, don't. That feature sucks on phpBB. Go to http://www.imageshack.us or http://www.xs.to and upload it, they're both free and you don't even need to register.