Hmmmm.... I edited it to the proper proportions. Within limits of size width and length, uploads fine, says it has the picture but i can't see it. I can see everyone else's so it's not my firewall. ???
It was the double extension that confused the board. It thought it was receiving a .jpg when the file was actually a .gif (the board goes by the first extension it sees, but the browser goes by the last extension)
I guess I'm gonna have to put up a warning sign on the user cp, cause all the other avatar threads here are obviously not being read through.