[Lynne]

OK, you are saying you are having problems with what is (or rather, is not) being displayed in the header template, right? But, you have this in that template:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">
 		   <img src="$vboptions[bburl]/image.php?u=$bbuserinfo[userid]" alt="$vbphrase[avatar]"  width="50" height="50" border="0" align="center"/>
		</td>
		<else />
		<td class="alt2" align="center">
		   <img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/avatars/noavatar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[guest] $vbphrase[avatar]" width="50" height="50" border="0">
		</if>

And you are saying you are getting this as the output:

<img height="50" border="0" align="center" width="50" alt="" src="http://www.xxxxxxx.co.uk/forums/image.php?u=2"/>

That doesn't make sense. Are you sure that the line you are looking at in firebug is in exactly the same place as that code in your header? (The header code doesn't look correct syntactically, btw.)

Do you have a link to a page where I can see this problem?