After digging even deeper… the theme developer had hidden that function on the style sheet. Seems that group avatars and member avatars share the same avatar size.
Now the avatar is all skewed because of the group avatar sizing. They share the same function. 🙁
Thanks. Maybe that’s why I’m losing my mind. I don’t have that option in my profile settings. I do have discussion set to allow Avatars – but no option on my user’s profile settings.