It seems that Photobucket have reversed their policy and the pictures in the old threads seem to be visible again! I did not delete my account, so all the links in my old postings should work again.
I had to remove some pictures when my photobucket was full some years ago, I guess those were some of the pictures that I removed. Oh well, not all but most of it is still there....
I guess if you copy the right images back and rename them according to the names in the forum code (see image properties to get the right name) that thread will be great again!