A little jQuery hack to overcome a drupal views issue http://drupal.org/node/750172

profile-picture-link-fix.js

/*
 * See comments below for explanation
 */

/* profile picture link rewrite */
jQuery.ajax({
    url: 'index.php',
    success: function () {
        if ($('div.fix-link').length) {
        	//console.log('begin fixing user profile links.');
			$('div.fix-link .nid').each(function(){
				//console.log('fixing link for user profile node '+$nid);
				var $nid = $(this).html();
				$(this).next().find('a').attr('href','/node/'+$nid);
			});
        }
	}
});

I didn't want to modify contributed module code (views),
and couldn't find a simple template.php workaround...

...so, here's a fun little script that expects any number
of incorrectly formatted user profile picture links like:

<div class="fix-link">
    <div class="display-none nid">
        $nid
    </div>
    <div ...>
        <a href="$wrong_url">
            $user_picture
        </a>
    </div>
</div>

...and for each one, returns:

<div class="fix-link">
    <div class="display-none nid">
        $nid
    </div>
    <div ...>
        <a href="node/$nid">
            $user_picture
        </a>
    </div>
</div>