RE: Avatar
Sorry You are having so much trouble,
I don't know what is best in that case to tell You, But what I would do is first see if another stock avatar will load. If it does than it may correct itself if its a bad code that got cached, if not I would clear cookies and temp files from within browser settings.
Other than that I really don't know what to suggest, and hopefully RCAdmin will see this and avise you better.