I also had my avatar pull a disappearing act on me...

But I found it again!

Try replacing this link **http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/avatars/custom/DonJ.gif**
with this one **http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum3/noncgi/avatars/custom/DonJ.gif**

If you did not catch that, replace the "1" with a "3".

It worked for me.