Ok, so on a fresh mind I went looking for the mysterious hiding place of the uploaded profile avatar.. I was able to view image info and saw that it was in a folder that at first glance did not exist in my Wp hierarchy .. I guess I missed a /wp/ in there but finally noticed and was able to, under ‘Miscellaneous Settings’ or ‘Settings/Miscellaneous’ from the WP-admin panel. I noticed that
‘Store uploads in this folder’ was set to etc/etc/etc/craigryder.com/wp/wp-contents/uploads/ – Removed the extra /wp/ found the files and copied them to the proper location and voila, avatars are working…;) now upgrading to Wordpress 3.0…