i think i've found the 'welcome box user with no avatar bug' - i thought it was working (and it was) then it wasn't...hang on i thought, after reading around here it's exactly the same problem, if a user doesn't use an avatar then the 'Default User Avatar' did'nt show...but why? - well... simple really, i turned off 'Enable News Posters Avatar' - that was the problem, turned it on again...bingo...the bug went away... i'll leave it with you mr nt loader
edit - actually, it kinda works... news poster avatar shows, but a user without an avatar still shows nothing, in fact it tried to show an avatar according to the userid (i store mine in a file system btw) typical url for a missing avatar is >
http://www.xx.co.uk/forum/customavatars/avatar4_0.gif (which is user 4)
-b6