Go to 'my profile', view/update profile. Scroll down to where the avatar choice is made. Click on select a different avatar which will open a new window. At the bottom of that page is 'use custom url'. Paste the entire link into that window, just as you have it to dispay the image (except without the image tags). Then click on 'set url' which should then cause the image to display at the top left of the avatar pagee. Click on 'select this avatar' (presuming it is the correct image) and it will close that window, take you back to the profile page.

Be sure to save the updates which will cause the avatar to now be the new one. You may have to close out of the forums and come back in to see the new avatar display.

You may be required to add some information to your profile to get it to save. Depending on how long you have been registered, I have changed some of what used to be optional fields to now be required fields. They are labeled with bold text. The reason this was done was to help quickly sort out the bad guys who appear to use automated forms to attempt to register for the forums. An invonvenience to some, but it is a really big help in trying to keep out the riff-raff.

BTW, Debbie, in your saving and naming process you somehow added an extra ".jpg" at the end of the name of the last image.