Check this out and scroll down, the screenshot says it all, without having to read German:
fridaynite.de/google-spioniert ...

How else would you expect it to be able to remember your avatar image across different computers? Or am I missing something...?

AFAIK it connects when you send an image through Google Talk. So it's not your profile image that is sent.

i dont think if its a spyware but i absolutely believe that google talk doesnt have any qualifications to come out of Beta!

Need more bug fixes for google talk!

If people didn't know Live Messenger connects to Microsoft "to remember the active modules"