A friend gave me some hosting space on his dedicated server owned by rackspace. Something in their configuration does not allow for images to be run out of the cgi-bin. So, thanks to the SETUP->PATHS feature in the admin console, I changed this to the www.x.com/images directory. I am not sure where the disconnect is, but the uploaded user icons do not display - rather, I get 1 flashing pixel where the user icons once were. If you go to your EDIT->USER PREFERENCES nothing is listed for my current user icon. SO.... and this is where the problem came... I had deleted the cgi-bin/forum/images directory - and when I attempted to upload the image (after changing the image path in setup) the forum generated an error message stating that the file/directory did not exist... It was essentially attempting to upload the file to the cgi-bin/forum/images/users directory (that I had deleted). So I recreated the directory and attempted to upload. To my disbelief, the file was in the cgi-bin/forum/images/users directory, and not in the x.com/images directory that I had set up in paths.

So, how do I change the action to upload the images to the other directory?

Somewhat related, with the image path changed, why would the images not be visable in EDIT->USER PREFERENCES? What would cause each user to be forced to re-upload the images? Where is the image dimension info stored, and is this lost on a migration?

Thanks!