okies this is working just liek i wanted but the thing now is, can i enlarge the icon size at all?

Yes, you can set the maximum size under vBulletin Options -> User Icons. :)

See here

Works nice.....

/me licks an orange flavored install button

i did everything it told me in the install file and now i get this

-points to ss-

Huh? What is the url of that broken image and what is the url to the image that should have showed up?

its pointing to /forums//images/ as the image and its /forums/images/announce.gif

This step:
Are you sure you added the code below the part you needed to find and not replaced it?

ah thats it I must have replaced it by accident thank you

I having problems with this hack. The User Icons only appear in member.php. It doesn't appear anywhere else. I've tried to install it twice but it still won't show up. I edited all the templates, and i followed the instructions, but its still not working. I'm using 2.3.0
Does any anyone know how i can fix this? Thanks in Advance.

Here's all the files I edited.

I noticed you forgot to do step 19.4a. Under edit options in your user cp I didn't notice the option to show or not show icons. Do that step, set the option to "yes" and then see if the icons show up.