Well, I am completely befuddled as to why avatars suddenly stopped working. The only ones that were loading were ones hosted outside of this site. I have spent a loooooong time looking through error logs, etc... to no avail. So for now I propose a work-around. I uploaded the current avatars to a folder labeled CC. You can see this folder when you go to your profile. From there, find your avatar (You may have to browse through a few). Please only choose your own avatar!