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[Strider]

Try putting that image in the lib>images folder. Also open_basedir might be blocking it from opening too. Freehosts are not the best for phpvms, not operational ones anyway, fine for testing, but a working site.

[simpilot]

I have found this error in the past and it seems to be due to a relative path to the rank image that is included in the signature made by the system when a user registers.

Try using a absolute path - ie - http://www.mysite.com/path/to/image

instead of a relative path - ie - ./path/to/my/image

This has solved the issue on systems I have had the issue with, although I can not say if that is the only issue within a free host environment.