[Antivirus]

iizeusii,
i think it has to do with the following l conditional in the code:

if (empty($userinfo[profilepicdateline])) {
$HTML .= "<img width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"$userinfo[avatarurl]\"><br>";
}
else {
$HTML .= "<img src=\"".$vbulletin->options['bburl']."/image.php?u=$userinfo[userid]&amp;type=profile&amp;dateline=$userinfo[profilepicdateline]\"><br>";
	}

The code was written (quite brilliantly) to show the user's profile picture, UNLESS that user has none, then it will show the user's avatar. If you want it to always show the avatar, regardless of whether or not the user has a profile pic, then find the code above within friends.php and replace it with the following which is simply commenting out the conditional and leaving only what you want:

// if (empty($userinfo[profilepicdateline])) {
$HTML .= "<img width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"$userinfo[avatarurl]\"><br>";
// }
// else {
// $HTML .= "<img src=\"".$vbulletin->options['bburl']."/image.php?u=$userinfo[userid]&amp;type=profile&amp;dateline=$userinfo[profilepicdateline]\"><br>";
	// }