I'm also having trouble with avatars not appearing. I turned them on in the control panel, and I can choose them quite nicely in the user profile area. But they refuse to show up in the actual posts! I've tried doing the 'upgrade' option in the control panel, clearing the cache, refreshing my browser, everything. And when I look in the template file I see code in there that talks about drawing avatars, so the code seems to be willing to do it. But the actual display doesn't have any avatar.

Any thoughts of things to try?

It's at www.bellaonline.com

Lisa
http://www.bellaonline.com