Heyo people...

DISCLAIMER: if this is posted in the wrong place, I am really sorry...

I am at my wits end with this, I have practically tried everything I can think of and some that I couldn't... I have searched Google and here and can not find what I want (or if I did I didn't realise that's what I wanted...)

First some background I guess...

I am a student, (Programming... yeah... I know) and have just started class again and so, am broke (Books are expensive) Also I am the leader of a gaming clan and am currently building the site for said clan, I have gotten everything looking respectable, things work, I am happy... up until I get to my current problem, which is awards...

I would get some add-ons (if any exist) but A: As stated, I am broke and B: it's not like the site is going to be bringing in money ever, so it's not an investment I can rout funds to... Living and Study are the #1 priorities at the moment...

Now, as I said before I have tried everything, honestly, I have had this problem for nearly a month now...

What I want to happen:
I want to show a bunch of images that are greyed out, with tool tips explaining what each image is.
Then, per user, I want to be able to "enable" or change the picture to one with colour, signifying, obviously, that the member has gained the award...

What I have tried:
Short of learning PHP, which, currently with all the other languages I have to learn (VB, Java, LUA, C# and SQL) is kinda impossible, I can only learn so many things at once...
So yeah, back to the point, I have, as stated quite a few times, tried everything, hell, this post is my last resort...

the three main things I have tried, there was probably more but they escape me at the time of posting;

- Existing extensions that seem like they maybe close to what I want.
- using a "Select Box" attribute to pick a word then displaying it with the only thing I have paid for, 'User info' (Invaluable thus far...) to display said attribute and then trying to get JQuery and/or Javascript to change the word into an image (Failed miserably this one... even forcing the script to run after the page was finished loading)

and lastly, the one I am using now which, although works, quite frankly, is horrible... and it kinda feels a little hacky...

- Using a "Select Box" to select an attribute that is displayed using 'User Info' where the value of the select box is the image tag

obviously this is not the real line I am using, but you get the point, and also, the one I am using is much larger...

now my slightly dyslexic (which is a horrible word for someone with dyslexia btw...) brain can't seem to grasp how to make my own attribute, how I could display said attribute or how I would possibly go about fixing this problem without doing the method I am currently employing...

As I said, I tried stuff that is down right stupid (the whole text replacement thingy... god that was idiotic...)

And if anyone could help or point me to a good, well done video tutorial on how to make a custom attribute with what I need and also how to display said attribute on my custom built members pages, that would be sweet...

Oh yeah, speaking of, I have a custom members page, hence the 'User Info' add-on, that is separate from the member profile page for visual reasons... and a fully customised theme based on my original static site (hence why I am using concrete5, cos I can do this easily)

So yeah, as I was saying, any help would be greatly appreciated...

- John

EDIT: A two dimensional select box would be cool... the first dim being the display name in the select box and the second dim being the image tag...