GW - I shrunk my avatar size down to 2K from 22K by cropping, converting to grey scale, and using a higher compression rate. I could probably get down a lot furthur, as this was "quick & dirty". He is still a pretty nice looking Badger to my way of thinking!
Perhaps, since there are still quite a few dial-up subscribers out there it would be appropriate to limit the size of the avatar to 3K or less.
