Nah, it was too small to look good as an avatar. I wonder how many threads are left concerning it. I know I kept all the PMs I got about it, there's at least 20
Edit: Went back and looked, most of the original posts were lost. I found some though. Here's the explanations for the meph thing at least.
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Short explaination: There is a delay between the time meph dies and the time his items fall, just for a split second (it's got something to do with the soulstone quest item dropping). Anyways, lets say when you kill him Arkaine's Valor is set to drop (w00t). But during the delay, the game lags (very rare) and instead, it decides to drop, lets say, an soj. When the items fall, the ring drops, but the game still thinks Arkaine's Valor is to drop, so the valor mods are "rolled" onto the ring, creating the ring in my sig. Can happen with any two items in the game, but I don't think it's ever happened to a set item...