There is now a settin in SkinStudio that allows a skinner to shutoff the user pic in their skins. If you have SkinStudio you can change it on any skin that doesn''t show the user pic.
Open the skin in SkinStudio, then in the "Explorer" tree, on the left go to Start Panel => User Pane. then in "Section" tree on the right you''ll see an option that says "Hide User Picture". change it from enabled to disabled.
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