you requested an avatar change? do you think badspot approves avatars manually or something?
Judging by how many times I have to shove my avatar in like a wrinkles dollar bill until it stops spitting ut back out, then I would not be surprised if he did.
maybe you are just inept
http://pastebin.com/raw/5ya37Eaithis might work for you, it's steve's re-validate avatars script, you need tampermonkey on chrome to use it though