I am not sure why the mod locked my topic but I found a solution to the problem. Instead of clicking the down arrow by my character name, I clicked "settings". This took me to a place I could edit my avatar. Now I'm trying to figure out how to play in windowed mode so I can do a print screen and pull an image up in Photoshop to crop and create a new avatar with my new and improved character.

I would strongly discourage opening a thread similar to one just locked. It pisses the mods off. Read what the mod said in the other one please. Remember, creating new threads pushes other, more useful ones back a page.

You don't need to play in windowed mode to get a screen shot. This explains how to get a screen shot from the game:

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/323312-important-oblivion-general-forum-information-/page__view__findpost__p__5216396

Thanks for the link Savlian, and Holy Assassin is correct that if a thread is locked it should not be reopened.

Rohugh explained before that there was a system problem, it has since been fixed. In the future if you are unsure why a thread has been locked please PM the moderator who locked it - reposting a locked thread is generally a warnable offense. It sort of defeats the purpose of a lock if we're OK with people posting a new thread on the subject.