Martin Dougiamas

"We have intentionally removed the picture capability" ?

I think the text you are seeing is the alt text on the (now broken) image.

I've started a new forum for discussing My Moodle (and the user profile page) and moved some existing discussions into there.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7309

Aside: This is why I'm not so keen on "My courses" in the menu ... then again the text on the login page doesn't seem to get read either.

As above, you can just turn off most of the permissions for the standard student role - this isn't too hard.

If you want to stop the course being backed up with the active courses then I would recommend setting up a second "archive-only" Moodle where you move the old courses to (backup and restore). This is even easier, because you can change the standard Student role into a read-only role for the whole site.

For authentication the archive Moodle can slave from the active Moodle (either through mnet or simple external database authentication).

Basically, you could do the same thing calling ANY page on ANY web site. ;)