[Plugin: BuddyPress] Avatars without Extended Profiles

I am using a special theme, which relies on and extended wordpress profile, and i dont know of a way to sync that up with the buddypress profile. However, i really want to be able to use avatars. Is there a way of disabling extended profiles, but keeping the ability to add avatars? thanks.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/