Use what brett uses for hit counter (and I "stole" with permission for chat mod and IM) - . Then make a new avatar.cgi, that checks vars_config for CookieNumber and MembersPath, then uses it to open cookie, then MembersPath/cookie[4].cgi, then the avatar line.
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