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Thank that was very useful, I will try and do it.

heres my draft, can you check it please

'profileAvatarRank');

                                               sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spPlainSection spCenter', '');

                                                        sp_UserAvatar('context=user&link=', $spProfileUser);

                                                        sp_UserForumRank($args='', $spProfileUser->rank);

                                                        sp_UserSpecialRank($args='', $spProfileUser->special_rank);

                        sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($Country, $spPostUser->ID);

                        sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($Gender, $spPostUser->ID);

                                               sp_SectionEnd();

                                     sp_ColumnEnd('', 'profileAvatarRank');

                                     # show profile info

                                     sp_ColumnStart('tagClass=spProfileShowInfoSection spRight&width=65%', 'profileInfo');

                                               sp_ProfileShowDisplayName('', __sp('Username'));

                                               sp_ProfileShowFirstName('', __sp('First Name'));

                                               sp_ProfileShowLastName('', __sp('Last Name'));

                                               sp_ProfileShowLocation('', __sp('Location'));

                                               sp_ProfileShowWebsite('', __sp('Website'));

                    sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($Orientation, $spProfileUser->ID);

                    sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($Looking For, $spProfileUser->ID);

                    sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($Preference, $spProfileUser->ID);

                                               sp_ProfileShowBio('', __sp('Bio'));

                                     sp_ColumnEnd('', 'profileInfo');

                            sp_SectionEnd('tagClass=spClear', 'profileBasic');

                            # output section for detailed user info

                            sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spProfileShowDetailsSection', 'profileDetails');

                                     # show user identities

                                     sp_ColumnStart('tagClass=spProfileShowIdentitiesSection spLeft&width=45%',

Two other questions, if I wanted to display a icon, for example their gender ,country under their avatar and forum rank on forum posts how do I link that icon to the selection they made from the dropdowns/menus ?

Where do I put these icons, as user groups ?

yes they are variables from the dropdowns in the custom profile fields, all I did was copy what is posted here 

Displaying Custom Profiles
You would use the sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($name, $userid=0) template tag in your Simple:Press theme where you want it to display.

Pass the name of the custom field as the first argument and the userid of the user whose profile is being displayed as the second argument.

Using the Video game example above to display the video game owned next to the member’s name/avatar in every one of his forum posts you would use the following in the spTopicView.php file by the Avatar display.

,

$spPostUser
->ID);

Depending on who and where you are showing the custom field you would get the userid in various ways.

An  example of showing a custom field for a user under his avatar would be

,

$spPostUser
->ID);

If you wanted to show the Custom profile display to the current logged in user then

,

$spTheUser
->ID);

To show the Custom profile display of a user in their profile pages you could use.

,

$spProfileUser
->ID);

but replaced $name with  for $country as your instructs to do.

to put on profile page (not under avatar on posts) it says to do it like this 

sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($name, $spProfileUser->ID);

so i dont see what i did wrong

sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($Orientation, $spProfileUser->ID);

                    sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($Looking For, $spProfileUser->ID);

                    sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay($Preference, $spProfileUser->ID);

Mr Papa said
sorry, what are:  $country, $gender, $orientation, $lookingfor and $preference??

are those variables you have defined somewhere?

per the codex Andy linked to, you want the name of the custom profile field... so perhaps you meant:

sp_CustomProfileFieldsDisplay('Country', $spProfileUser->ID);

for example...  assuming the custom profile field you created was named Country...  if you filled $Country somewhere with that string, it would be fine...

currently, the custom profile fields doesn't support images (though we had one other request for such and have a ticket for future consideration)... so you would have to add the coding logic yourself for images...

sorry i misunderstood you, they are not variables , they are custom profile fields, they have dropdowns (which I assume is what you mean by variables within each, the member selects their gender, country, etc, from the selects, or lists and thats what is displayed to other members..

I assumed that as the custom field has variables within it you have to put the $ in otherwise it will not recognize anything but Afghanistan, the first on the list.

Are you saying that i have to put a $ before every 248 country in the dropdown value list in any/all custom field select list ?/

no $orietation,$gender,are are not saved anywhere, Gender,Orientation,country,preference are though as custom fields in the custom profile fields., each has "selects or  lists" within them.