Ok, thought I would just start this topic cause I've seen that some people are having problems with the size of their avatars and such forth. Don't use Paint to resize them, it blows the big one. If you can't afford (cause I all know we purchase software here ) PhotoShop, there is a very compitent alternative avaialable for free from www.gimp.org or for a windows version www.gimp.org/win32
It might not be as feature rich as say, PS7, but its still a damn far sight better then most other programs out there. Just a suggestion