Thank you! That works!...except now for the other issue regarding profile pictures....they are distorted.

This happens with the friends profile pics too...they are distorted. How do we get their profile pics to display at a set size?

For example, the image on the profile page is displayed at 75 x 75 (or thereabouts...75 x 90 or something like that) and everywhere else it seems to be displaying at 120 x 90. Even though I have set the size in the database as suggested in another post by another user, it had no effect.

Profile page displays pic at 75 x 75 and everywhere else it is 120 x 90. See this page and notice how the image (which was uploaded and should display at 72px × 90px) is being shown at 120 x 90:

http://sca-video.com/view/79/whackamole ... et-part-3/

And since I have substituted all the .jpg images with what RAMIUS has suggested, I have no way of testing to see if the "image" is broken if the user has not uploaded a picture. Will it show the "no_image.gif" like it does on the profile page or will it show a broken image link? Can someone verify this?