According to Weltall it's only too tall if you use 800x600... I think it's too tall either way. Just far too big. I can see why getting rid of the sidebar is nice (it does make DJ's sig display with no stretching now, though before I didn't have to scroll over to read the posts... at least most of the time...), but the avatars just make it too big.

And no, Weltall, I don't want to turn them off. I like them and identify people by them.