BTW I looked at vbgallery since it doesn't display any avatars at all and I found this code in showimage.php
Code:
Content visible to verified customers only.
Once the $show[avatar] is set to False it never gets set to True again so nothing is shown. For grins I changed the code to $show[avatar]=true and it tried to show a graphic but the location of the image was not correct, although the hyperlink for the image to my profile was correct. I don't know what that means exactly other than the code listed above doesn't work as intended.