(I am not magic
.)
You're not? Then...what? Nooo!
(Kinda like finding out the Bad News about Santa Claus....)
My best guess about the standard avatars, because I can't even figure out how to go about seeing them to select one! - is that that part of the backup forum has rotted from age. I can continue to poke at the problem if people have additional info to give me that might help, but I'm not optimistic about getting it sorted. And I won't be asking Randall to figure it out; it's non-critical and liable to be time consuming, and I - and presumably all of us - want him to be focusing his time and attention on the main forum, not the backup.
Sunflower
I certainly agree with that last sentence. I had thought the problem might be as simple as a software switch...no way to know otherwise.