Making a variable work everywhere

[BigJohnny]

I have a default avatar plugin installed, which allows me to put $avatarnavbits to display a noavatar.gif where I put it.

It seems to work everywhere until just recently when I installed CMPS, it still shows everywhere, except when on the CMPS index. I can put it in if I hard code the url, but I would prefer to just use the variable already created.

the plugin is set to global_start as it's the only hook where it seems to work.

Any ideas how to make it work on CMPS?