1) House them on a free server and change the avatar URL in the settings but have a local copy of the avatars so the program can detect that specific avatars exist.
2) Images that don't refer to your server (in URL) in sigs don't cause extra bandwidth. Only stuff from your server would cause bandwidth charges.
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