Thanks antisniperspy, I thought that if I was doin' it right

it would be the same everytime, meaning that the process was clean.
I was obviously wrong coz I took your advice and flashed my falcon freeboot image on and seems ok so far, avatars have dissappeared as usual tho.
I'm presuming that will right itself when a 9199 update appears via disc, like it did with 8955 or can I apply via usb with the official 9199 update? Note: still have R6T3 in place.
I used the smc from jtag tool which is ok for falcon but I read that there is possibly a different smc between jasper 16mb or jasperBB. I have yet to try on JasperBB. There is only one in the SMC folder of jtag tool for jasper so I don't know?? I haven't been able to locate this stuff in the usual places so I trusted this.
Im glad it worked for you I have had mixed results with this tool. As for the 9199 update you can just put it on a usb drive and it should only install the avatars. If you do try a BBJasper with this tool will you post how it goes because I have one of those and a 256Jasper to do sometime soon.
I have also had problems with a falcon I did about a week ago. I could not even get back into xellous. If you cant get back into Xellous then yes you have to open it up.