download photobucket. When you upload the pic, click on it and click the "i" with a circle around it. You can click on the botom link it copies to your clipboard. Then just paste in a thread and works great. You don't need the little image icon on the post thing, just paste the link into the reply field.
turn off the cloud auto-backup feature of photobucket unless you want all your pics uploaded. They are in a "private" folder, but still...