But the Gravator website is so poor. I haev set up an e-mail address, uploaded two avatars to go with it, but it does not allow me to associate any of them with my e-mail address.

It tells me to click on one ot associate it, but nothing happens and their help screen does nothing. Utter crap !

When you click on the picture you should get a Confirm or Cancel overtop, possibility that some kind of browser incompatibility / popup blocker / spam filter might be the issue.
Remember the site only went live again yesterday.

When you consider how many people now have pop up blockers, its a bit daft to have a system that relies on pop-ups. Thanks anyway.

Man, Gravatar has been gone so long I've forgotten my password....