Vanessa

Awesome...thank you so much.  We're using phpbb.  I see in the admin panel where we can turn off the file uploads...so that takes care of that question.  Now if you can tell me how to preload the avatars we will let the users select from to use...that would really be helpful. 

We are using the php style forum and need some help setting things up.  We wanted to preload avators and give users the ability to use those...but not be able to use their own...question 1) how do I upload the ones we've chosen 2) how do I make it where users can only use what we've uploaded rather than risking them uploading their own and offending someone else on the board?  Please help...thank you.