Thanks all for your help and suggestions
CarolinaKid, I followed your instructions and all my settings were set and still no difference.
I did notice that the default icon works only if no "news" has an icon, and that if I "CHOOSE" an icon, it will show broken.
So in summary, I guess my forum is "different", lol and requires me not to choose an icon.
Thank you again Faranth...I may just delete the icon thingy, or just not put an icon and let the default icon take care of it for me.
THANKS ALL!