[Plugin: WP Framework] Issues with Avatars

I have been having issues with getting correctly uploaded user avatars (or gravatars) to display on the wp-framework theme installed with buddypress. We have been discussing the issue over on the buddypress forum and we eventually discovered that this is a theme issue; avatars do display correctly on other buddypress compatible themes. Any creative ideas how to troubleshoot this theme to get avatars working?

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/uploaded-buddypress-avatars-not-visible-throughout-site/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-framework/