flags of 0x00 in oscar_icon_req() can apparently mean 'you should upload your buddy icon' just as flags of 0x41 can. I'm really unclear as to why Adium with libpurple is getting the 0x00 response while Pidgin with the same libpurple code is getting 0x41 after sending identical data (with identical md5 hashes) for a buddy icon... but that's the way it is. This may fix other conditions in which AIM people claim that their buddy icon isn't being properly set; further insight into what's going on would certainly be appreciated.