Cool, I think this is working for me!

I am using it for banned members, and a usergroup that is not allowed to have avatars, but they show because they had them before I removed the permission.

I tried the postbit_legacy one, and that works.. I'll have to try the others too, thanks for the help!

PS - These members also had signatures removed, but in the profile view page, you still see the signature. I am assuming I can apply that same type of code around the signature area of memberinfo, and that would work?

Thanks again!

Yep, you can use the code for the sig aswell.

Keep in mind though, the code for the postbit is differs from the one for the MEMBERINFO template. MEMBERINFO uses $userinfo, while the postbit template uses $post :).