Account photo location

When installing Leopard, it asks you to take a photo for your user account. I did that, and it is set as my user picture right now. HOWEVER, WHERE is it located? I know about the Library/Caches...location, but that is a little version of the picture taken. There must be a bigger version of the account photo somewhere. It is also not in Photo Booth, because it was taken during installation, not WITH photo booth. Anybody who knows a mac well, please help me out.
It might be in some weird format, because i know that some pictures that Address Book uses are "plain text" format, but when opened with quicktime, they are pictures....
HELP

ryno_dude wrote:
It might be in some weird format, because i know that some pictures that Address Book uses are "plain text" format, but when opened with quicktime, they are pictures....
There is no such thing as a "plain text" format for an image.
Images are not usually opened with quicktime but with preview.
I don't quite follow you here.

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