can't upload avatar?

Excellent!

Ok that worked haha all fixed must be my router blocking something.

I only use Firefox, and it's the latest update version. Nothing else has changed, maybe I'll unhook my router and connect right from my modem and see if works

Interesting...I clicked the link and opened the Change Avatar dialog, clicked the Browse button, and I got the standard MS file browsing/search dialog window.  That, and the message you got, make me think that you've got a setting that prevents the feature from connecting to and searching on your hard drive.

Have you had any browser updates recently?  I know that back in the fall, there were updates from Microsoft, for Internet Explorer, that reset browser settings for some of my customers, and they couldn't run my company's application; they got browser errors.  In their case, we had them restore browser defaults.  Whether you're using IE or some other browser, I'd be curious to know if something has changed, since the last time you were able to do this.

Hopefully you and I have given some good specifics for the technical staff to diagnose this for you.

it's just a small jpeg under 30k, no different than any other time I changed it.

here is the screen shots.
I click the "change avatar" section that you can see in the screen shots where my user name is in the white box on the right.

Can you provide more detail about what happens when you try to upload a new image?  Do you get any specific messages, whether error messages or otherwise?  What type of file are you using, and how big is the file?  Also, just to confirm, you're using the Change Avatar link that appears with the other profile/settngs options in the area at the right of the page, correct?

That should help the technical support people diagnose the issue better.