All good points Ron. Being a free service, photobucket or any of the others have bandwith requirements and if the pictures are popular, the bandwith sometimes hits and photobucket delays the pics for a day or two. My personal preference is because I store all my car pics there and I have the ease of posting to any forum I want.
With uploads, you're tied to the single forum and need to understand the restrictions of upload, image size, etc. Not everyone is as generous as you with the picture storage on the forum.
So now you need a different tool for the different forums to resize pictures based on requirements. for me personally, easier to embed the IMG link.
I think for the OP he has enough options now and should be able to post a picture hopefully!
Cheers!
Merim