good post!

I just played around with one of my pictures that I posted (using the first method) and found that if you click "settings" on the very upper right of the screen and then click "attachments" at the bottom of the menu that runs down the left hand side, you can find all of the photos that you have uploaded to the forum. If you click on the photo, you have the html address of the photo. You can then copy it and paste it into your message and put [img] in front of the http and [/img] at the end to make it look like your second method. This way you don't need the photobucket account.