If you're talking about the Display Picture, couldn't you replace the default "no avatar selected" image with a a skin?
You could probably even replace the standard DPs too, though I don't know how Messenger works on this, but I can't imagine it makes you download the standard ones again from people who have them set p:
This post was edited on 08-13-2009 at 10:33 AM by vaccination.
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