Thanks for the response.
I did double check the path, tried removing the leading '/' and even tried an absolute path but it didn't work. Also checking the source html (great idea btw

) also doesn't show that portion of code at all which makes me think the conditional isn't working properly?
--------------- Added [DATE]1352480907[/DATE] at [TIME]1352480907[/TIME] ---------------
Update:
If I install this product here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=227947 then your code works properly but the downside is that it shows a default avatar for every single person who doesn't have one, whereas I want it to only show that avatar to the person logged in, asking them to set a custom avatar.