In looking at the logs, I noticed that the profiles for some users point to uploaded avatars that are no longer available. They must have been lost in the Great Crash of '04.
As I spot these cases, I am PM'ing them and assigning a temporary avatar "lost in crash" to them so the error message quits showing up in the logs.
I don't know why it happened and am just trying to find it and help people eliminate the problem. It isn't anyone's fault and there is no conspiracy.
