This is just a test, has this been an actual emergency... my avatar would not have worked. :)

Ahem... take two.

Argh! Emergency, emergency! Danger Will Robinson, danger! Bah. If I upload it doesn't show up. If I try to link I keep getting some error message. Le sigh. Oh well. No avatar for me for now. No biggie.

Yep, it's sadly a bug that crawled out from under a rock during the forum host change a while back, and hasn't been squashed yet.

Check this thread out for more information (not that there is much, but still).

Does mine woooork??

Avatars won't work unless uploaded before the host change. If you haven't experienced forum downtime due to exceeded bandwidth limit you didn't join before the host change, thus your avatar won't work. Simple as that.