A number of external avatars are not showing up. Example is my own. Is it an issue with special characters? My avatar is

http://www.tropictravelonline.com/gallery/categories/Sandals_and_Beaches/Whitehouse/abctate%20012006/media/can%20you%20tell%20I%20loved%20the%20sunsets.jpg and this worked on the ubbclassic board but didn't work on the import

http://www.tropictravelonline.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php

It very well could be the special characters. Not sure if the importer can handle those, but will take a look.

I tried to go add it back by hand, and it didn't work. A lot of the stuff that came over didn't have the avatars, but I didn't look for a pattern.

Looks like you decided not to fix this in RC1. Classic allowed the names, so I would not have expected something newer to remove functionality.

Can you post exactly what your avatar tries to link to after the import? I was able to change my avatar to the sunset picture in your original post on my test forum, so it's definitely an allowed avatar.

When I try to put it in now, it is http://www.tropictravelonline.com/gallery/categories/Sandals_and_Beaches/Whitehouse/abctate%20012006/media/can%20you%20tell%20I%20loved%20the%20sunsets.jpg, and it just goes away, and it came over as blank, as well. Could it be the size I am allowing? What size are you allowing?

I think it's because the URL already has the spaces converted to %20. Try just putting it in like this:

That worked on a new post.

I have not tried reimporting since I upgraded to rc1 because I didn't get the answer to whether I would now have member in 3 times. Do I need to start all over in a clean directory to get members just one time? Do we need to do this on each import?

Yes, you'd need to start over with a clean install. The importers are all written to import everything when ran, so if you run it with data already there you'll end up with duplicates.