So I want to add author bio to end of each post, modifying single.php

below is the code snippet

<div class="post-bodycopy cf">
<?php the_content(); ?>
<!-- patch for author bio munchy_cool -->

<!-- <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta('email') , '80' , ' ' ); ?> -->
Written by <?php the_author_link(); ?>
<p><?php the_author_meta('description'); ?></p>
<p><a href="http://facebook.com/<?php the_author_meta('facebook_profile'); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="mysite.com/image.png" width="16" height="16" alt="Facebook" /></a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/<?php the_author_meta('twitter_profile'); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="mysite.com/image2.png" width="16" height="16" alt="Twitter" /></a><br /></p>
<!-- end of patch -->

Problem 1
<!-- <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta('email') , '80' , ' ' ); ?> -->

is not working , display a '80 on the page

Problem 2
the facebook and twitter images do not appear is 16,16 even though that's what I set them to above, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

1) get_avatar is not in the limited php code allowed in the virtual templates
2) if you are on version 1.1.3, do you have patch 113-06 applied?

yes sir, the patch is applied ..

anything on the second problem?

What is the URL?

the website is a news website so I have not yet pushed the changes online, I am testing on my local wordpress installation, I can attach a screenshot if needed of my local test page

what plugin are you using to put the fac ebook and twitter info in the author meta?

I am not using any plugin, i added below code to functions.php

/*================================================= ==================================
* Add Author Links
* ================================================== ===============================*/
function add_to_author_profile( $contactmethods ) {
$contactmethods['rss_url'] = 'RSS URL';
$contactmethods['google_profile'] = 'Google Profile URL';
$contactmethods['twitter_profile'] = 'Twitter Profile URL';
$contactmethods['facebook_profile'] = 'Facebook Profile URL';
$contactmethods['linkedin_profile'] = 'Linkedin Profile URL';
return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter( 'user_contactmethods', 'add_to_author_profile', 10, 1);

function hide_profile_fields( $contactmethods ) {
unset($contactmethods['aim']);
unset($contactmethods['jabber']);
unset($contactmethods['yim']);
return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods','hide_profile_fie lds',10,1);

also I have made some progress with the images, instead of using 32x32 images I am using 16x16 images for the facebook and twitter links but now the problem is that the author bio is in a box and the facebook and twitter images are also inside a box but they kinda go out of the original box, author gravatar is still not working though.

here is the code in single.php
<div class="post-bodycopy cf">
<?php the_content(); ?>
<!-- patch for author bio -->
<div class="postauthor">
<!-- <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta('email') , '80' , ' ' ); ?> -->
<p class="hlight"> Written by <?php the_author_link(); ?> </p>
<p><?php the_author_meta('description'); ?></p>
<a href="http://facebook.com/<?php the_author_meta('facebook_profile'); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="facebook-pencil.png" alt="Facebook" class = "rsslink" /></a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/<?php the_author_meta('twitter_profile'); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="\twitter-pencil.png" alt="Twitter" /></a><br />
</div>

<!-- end of patch -->
<?php wp_link_pages( array(
'before' => __( '<p class="post-pagination">Pages:', 'montezuma' ),
'after' => '</p>'
) ); ?>

here is the css i added in posts.css
.postauthor {border-left: 1px solid silver;border-top: 1px solid silver;border-right: 1px solid silver; border-bottom: 1px solid silver; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 5px; background-color: transparent; background: url(images/body-bg17.png); width: 525px; margin-top:5px;}
.postauthor img {float: left;}
.postauthor h4 {color: #666; font-size: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px;}
.postauthor p {color: #515151; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 7px; border:none, outline: none;}
.postauthor p.hlight {font-size: 11px; text-transform: uppercase;}

here is how it looks - http://imgur.com/sIlXARF

Notice the facebook and twitter icons have a border which is not inside the box, I tried removing the border by adding below line to css above
.postauthor a {border:none;}

but no go.
Also any help with gravatar would be awesome and we may have a working author bio for the theme.

as I said, the get_avatar() is NOT part of the Limiteed PHP coe allowed in the virtual templete.

anywhere else we can put that, and any help on the icons going out of the box?

anywhere else we can put that

There was a post about adding new functions to the 'Limited PHP Code' that you could follow. I do not have the link to it so you will have to search the forum for it.

any help on the icons going out of the box?

I would use the FireBug Extension of FireFos and play wiith the positioning of the icons.