If you're talking about the URL from Yahoo, that's not hosting here, that's linking.
You need a new URL, one not from Yahoo. That means uploading the pic to your album here, obtaining a URL from your album here, then pasting that into your profile.
Copy that.
This is the URL from here that I want to make my avatar
http://www.cbr1100xxforums.org/photos/disp...12172&pos=-2324
What's wrong with it? What am I doing wrong?