Welcome!

You have a mighty impressive collection there addict, I'm sure you'll have a great time here.

As for your avatar and banner, you can do these things thru Yuku. Just click where it says Account at the very top of any page here, you should see it as the second heading after "Welcome gijoeaddict". Once there, you can do all kinds of nifty customizations to your settings including inserting an avatar pic. I've never used a banner before, so I'm unsure how to do that, but I'll see if I can learn.

Also if you'd like to insert images directly into posts, instead of the links as you did above, there is also a button to use when posting. Along the line of icons at the top of the post box, you'll see one that says insert image when you mouse over it, it's the 5th icon from the right. Press that, and enter the direct url of your image, and it should appear in your post.