-The sizes of the pictures are many times too small for the size of the 'avartar' or picture that is used in Crusaders. I fear that to get those pictures big enough to fill in the square in the faces.bmp file, they would lose all of their details. Its better not to have to enlarge a picture, if possible.
-Have you taken these wo pictures from msn? I think I've seen them before :) lol
-the file format is a .gif. Usually, it would be preferable to use a .bmp, since the original file format (faces.bmp) is already a bitmap.
-Last thing, is that you haven't followed the structure for the pictures. Check the original file (faces.bmp) in ur Crusaders directory. You'll see white squares. It's my belief that those are for telling Crusaders where the picture starts and ends, vertically and horizontally. So it would be good to follow this structure and have each file in their own square. I just erased in paint the other shields to put my own in, so that I wasnt changing the number and placement of the squares. It makes it easier.