Photobucket, earlier this week, surprised us all by now making their free photo hosting no longer free. Luckily I had been having doubts about photobucket for awhile now and have switched to a photohosting site called:
http://www.imgur.com
Frankly it is easier to upload and they give you a smaller paste code and they don't auto insert their own hyperlinks. All in all I have found it to be a much friendlier system.
I hope those of you who have had extensive images posted using photobucket will switch to imgur and reload your pics. I know it will probably take us all while (including myself) to get those images resaved and reposted (at least photobucket hasn't yet locked out our images). I wish I had an easier answer, but right now its the best solution out there.
Regards,
Tamer