Long story short, I had to stop the server in the middle of startup. Anyway, I starting up the server again and it appears that avatars and skins are not showing (only the default skin will show) and it appears my alternate server (which runs Tekkit with 1.2.5) shows them just fine. Does anyone know how the skins are loaded? I always thought they were just downloaded off Minecraft's servers and not something that could be corrupted. Any advice?
The skins are 100% and possibly a bit more independent from your server (assuming you're not using a minecraft.net proxy )
I just checked and my skin seems to appear fine now! I'll check the rest when I finish my work. I was just concerned because it appears my other server was displaying skins fine.