That portrait graphic is fairly simple, you could either use a static file that you would need to create yourself, or you could use the so called paperdoll image that is also shown in the inventory window. The first option would of course be less of a performance hit.
Also if you go the static image route while selection via race and gender are possible, it would be better to simply select by character name since your portrait will be character specific.
A class icon on the player window is also easily done.
I recommend for all of the above to start looking at other mods that already do what you want to do and take it from there (the paperdoll you can copy from the default inventory window, the class icon is almost certainly available on some mods here). If I was going to explain exactly how to do it I could just as well do the mod for you.
The UIbuilder bug you describe I have never encountered. To start out modding the best thing to do is to make a custom UI folder and copy the eq2ui.xml from the Default folder there, then open that up in UIbuilder.
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