anyway, jla... id really suggest not using that image as your avatar.

its 60kb, which means it could take someone on a dialup aol connection 30+ seconds to download it (when, meanwhile, the browser is trying to download a whole buncha other crap).

i try to limit all of the avatars here to 1kb so that, worse case scenario with 25 different people responding on the same page, thats only 25kb -- still less than half the size of yer image.