Tungsten, this is excellent well done. Works perfectly.
I stripped out your avatar code and dropped it into a side menu for my site - a sort of side-welcome-panel
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/
From what I can see this is the first functional vB3 welcome panel that totally replicates the different states as in the original vB2 welcomepanel. Nice one.
Martyn
(aka tril0Byte)