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Originally Posted by Lynne

The block uses avatar *thumbnails*. If you don't have the directory set to chmod 777, then you are going to get broken images.

Hmm, I'm not conveying myself well. I have no problem with broken images right now. I can remove the code cleanly but without any thumbnail images the block looks a bit empty so I want to fix the real problem.

Let me try once more and I apologize for not making this clear from the start:

1) User X makes a new thread. It shows up in the forum block as a new thread and since it's an update it goes to the top of the queue. It also shows a thumbnail of user X's avatar.

2) User Y responds to that same thread. The forum block shows that the thread has been updated and has 1 reply from user Y but the avatar next to this information is still user X's. In fact it will never change.

On my site we know each other's avatars fairly well so this is becoming a bit frustrating because we can't trust the avatar image next to an update as coming from that user. This should be easy enough to change but I am not capable of doing it from my failed attempts today. I tried editing the template Block_threads as well as the actual .php file in the block folder but there are too many variables for me to make sense of and it's not clear which one I should replace.