Hi,

Hope this is the right place to ask this; essentially I keep trying to upload an avatar (it's the right size/file type) and keep getting the following error message: "The upload failed. Please contact a member of staff to help rectify the problem"

Any ideas?

It's probably broken or disabled to save bandwidth/storage.

You are probably better off using a offsite file host like imageshack/photobucket or something of that sorts.