flipped it around just to make sure

both work fine for me, off database and off server. say on your site what link is the x (which is supposed to be the avatar) say?
question though: is it possible to make smilies show up in the submitted comments? and with 4.5 should i re-load the .xml? because i had to change the queue it created for it to work on my site, and that wasn't the much fun until i figured out how to make that work.