I found a way to sort of circumvent Photobucket, and that is to add "th_" in front of the image file name. So Photobucket still at least allows thumbnail size files to be shared, just not full sized. Which does suck, but what I might do is go back to threads like the G1/CHUG comparison thread, reduce the images to thumbnail size and embed hotlinks to the full sized images on those thumbnails. So people can still view the thumbnails and just click on them to view full size.

I'll be looking for another option to host future images though - but this is just an option for existing images that I've posted.