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Look up the old image before we store the new one in the hash table. Looking up the new image and then unref:ing it (hence freeing the data and subsequently returning it) is not good. This was causing problems with changing buddy icons while using mystatusbox. Closes #9120.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.