I would like to allow animated .gif's to be used as avatars, I've uploaded them, but they don't animate....am I doing something worng? or is there a Hack for this? Also I really like your postbit...have you released it or did you get it from somewhere else.

Their is a Size limit for avatars, if the animated gif is over that limit, it wont work.
As for the postbit, its great huh! I think Livewire did that, i'm not sure though, just guessing.

thanks for the fast reply, anyway to alter the size?

for the Size limit or the avatar itself?

the size limit

Like so, Go into your ADMINCP and click "Usergroup manager" then click the usergroup you would like to have animated avatars for, click that Usergroup and then scroll down and search for "Picture uploading permissions", see attached pic, just enable "animated avatars." and the other one "upload custom avatars". should do ya, oh ya, the size limit is right their also, just look where I circled in yellow for ya.

Thank you very much

No problem, glad to be of help!