By the way, there is a photobucket hack. I tried it on forums with editable old threads, like this one. It works. The following lifted from another forum.
"Seems there is a workaround for Photobucket's dastardly third party hosting ban.
If you edit your old posts and add ~original to the end of the image file name it should display property. So if you image tag looks something like this
my_image_file_name.jpg[/IMG]
change it to
my_image_file_name.jpg~original[/IMG]
I have no idea how long this will continue to work."