I will go back to the giraffe Steg. I just did it to compete with Salla who is now Les Dawson!! I love my leggy giraffe. Hopefully I can change it back.
Maize Click CTRL and F5 together and see if that changes it to your new one - although you will probably get the same problem as me and end up with two!!
It also seems that when other people change their avatars the new ones will not change on our screens unless we delete internet history etc (I just deleted my history etc and mazies avatar changed after that