I have had problems changing my profile and have not been able to change anything. It just will not accept any changes to my profile. I would also like to place an avtar and it will not let me do that either.
Something is wrong with the system. Until things are fixed I'd be happy to at least put in an avatar that you want (if you have it saved to your hard drive). Attach the avatar to an email and zap it to budburner0@icqmail.com . Hopefully things will be fixed shortly. I could also change your profile if you want, but that's most fun if you can set it up yourself.