Hold on mikey dont give up. There is a simple tutorial in photobucket for posting piccys. I too spent many many hours on Monday and Tuesday loading simple video cos they have changed stuff about radically in very recent times.
The only challenge is to get the pictures onto photofu*&it and if you can see them on there then so can we.
Make sure you are in the album they have asked for, which will be the one you have opened and called Z pics for example. Click on browse for your pictures. This takes you into a replica of your PC. Find the pictures you want to post and then click ok or save.
When youve done it it will say loading image, encoding.......... and then it will say saving to server.
Untill you have seen both of these two notifications in the information window that you are loading the picture into then you must not do anything else let it make the moves it is automatic.
Go make some tea or have a wander outside or do as i do and go and change the water in the cold towel i have wrapped around my head to keep cool.
Click on save and continue and then the picture will be evident in the window.
If you click on save and continue then that window (loaded image window) closes and the picture then appears in the album window which opens next automatically.
Ten or so minutes may have elapsed and then the pictures will have appeared in a tiny window which is a thumbnail of the contents of your album.
Below the picture is a block of four shortcuts and the bottom one is the one to use for direct posting into chatrooms and the like.
To its' immediate left it say IMG.
The block with the actual adress is partially obscured but no matter you dont need to see it fully. It is slightly yellowy in colour compared to the text on the page.
Hovver the mouse pointer over the partial address that you can see it begins [URL=http
and left mouse click it.
A small yellow notification appears saying COPIED and the address that it has copied it highlights in blue for you. You have now won because when writing you post, simply left click in the post window for this site and select paste. Nothing else to do.
If your using Vista you can keep both Z1OC and photobucket open at the sme time by using two seperate tabs.
If using XP or 95 you just open a new window and have both open simutaneously. I find this helps because you can flit back and forth between the two.
I bet this sounds more confusing than actually doing it. It took me literally days but i am not someone who has ever given up however beaten i am.
Al
P.S. My offer still stands to help with putting the engine back in if you need. See other post about shards of metal in Andy Z1Rs' engine.
This is the link to the tutorial for single image using the old uploader.
http://tutorials.photobucket.com/tutorial_3.html
This for multiple images using old uploader.
http://tutorials.photobucket.com/tutorial_39.html
This one for video clips using old uploader.
http://tutorials.photobucket.com/tutorial_8.html
I tried the beta uploader and it works fine if you need it for video.
It also gives what they call and action preview window.
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Hope this helps Mikey but in the event that it does not then drop me a pm or e-mail and i can see you through it.