[chrispadfield]

ok i am sorry i should read better.

The only easy way i can think about this is to do this:

1) create an extra field in profile. This is already avaliable as an option. Now, my understanding is you have something like this as a setup:

POSTS           1-100               100-250              250-500

Star Wars       Jedi                    Dark Jedi               Luke
Star Trek        ensen                 captain                 admiral

if so, what i would do is set that field as a directory. So, for example they could enter Star_Wars or Star_Trek (in the description type the list).

Then modify stars.php do call image but also to use the variable from the user so it would be:

<img src="path_to_images/$user[new_field]/post_number.gif">

sort of thing.

That would work and not require much hacking at all.