Is it really
width can be no greater than 80 pixels, the height no greater than 80 pixels, and the file size no more than 6 KB.
?

Because I can't help but notice things like:

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ashiavatar.gif

&:

http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/7907/sahil4ro.gif

Which kind of don't fit the bill at all...

Btw, i knocked up a (correctly formatted) transparent gif for Nokia's avatarr as it's currently a tranparent png file (which doesn't display as transparent in IE), so if someone could point him in this direction?

http://imagehost.bizhat.com/show.php?id=231930

Mind you, I could always send a pm I suppose...