Good points, Ag3nt Magnum.
I'll leave that up to Sassem, as he's in charge of the avatars, and he's also very busy creating some other things for our council thread, which should prove very helpful to other players.
As far as your sig goes....simply copying the image and inserting image won't work.
What you must do is right click your avatar, click on 'properies' (found all the way down at the bottom of the list), and copy the 'address (URL)' line. It will begin with 'http://blahblahblah (The actual address can be found in my previous post addressed to you).
Then, go into edit sig, paste the address into the edit sig box, then you must place [IMG] tags around the address. Note that the the second one has a /IMG inside the brackets. You may also want to look at the vB Code List, as this will also explain it (and many other useful features).
Once this is done, it should display properly. If your still having problems, please PM me (or X-Fire as bootsiuv).
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