Now I'm having a similar problem - I can still see avatars - but I wanted to put an image on a post in my journal - I have a shoebox of pictures at an MSN site so I did the HTML coding for an image and it gives a red x - however if I put a link to the image itself and click the link the pic shows up - so it's not that the image is missing. I wanted the pic to show on my journal page and not have people have to click a link for it. I tried for about an hour with everything I could think of - I used the IMG option at the top of the message making options. I did get one to work by uploading a pic as an attachment and then doing another post and using the attachment address in the image coding unfortunately in trying to resize the image it got so screwed up it was all grey and pixelated. Oh well its a cold snowy saturday - I'll putter around some more.