I'll stick this here as well.
if you can't see pictures and avatars.
go to your control panel (user cp)
Click Profile.
Then select Options.
confirm your password.
scroll down to the bottom where it says:
'which template would you like to use. '
And select: Old Yabb 2.1 style - modded.
And that should sort it.
I know this loses the custom menu at the top of the page - but I'm working on that.
Hopefully it's just acut and paste html job.
we'll see

slowly but surely - we're getting there.