See my previous post on your previous thread.

Did you update / replace your .htaccess file with the version provided by Elgg 1.7.3? No idea what else could have gone wrong.

Here is a link to the script that updated the profile photos: http://trac.elgg.org/browser/elgg/branches/1.7/engine/lib/upgrades/2010071001.php

Instead of using the username as the name of the photo, it now uses the GUID of each user. This leads to better support for national characters in usernames.

The only reasons I can think for it now working are:

1. You never ran the upgrade script

2. Something really odd caused that particular upgrade to not run

3. There was a permissions issue on those files so that Elgg could not rename them

This message sucks and I plan to rewrite the handling of login failures for 1.8. The code for this is in engine/lib/sessions.php and it is something like 5 failures in 10 minutes.

Thanks.  I found it.  It's 5 in 5 minutes and it says its temporary.

Elgg is too much for shared hosting. Most people start with VPS.

If only the hosting companies would know that, too...

Anyone know?

A user's GUID can be obtained from the user object:

echo $user->getGUID();