Chaos and I did some testing on his server and it seems that:
Custom Avatar and Avatar directory must be CHMOD 755 at the very least. If you want to use the managment options available in the Control Panel, these directories have to be CHMOD 777. If you want to be able to operate on the graphics too, each graphic must be CHMOD 777.
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