With photobucket, and flickr being free there was no point in paying the extra fee to have this option from our host provider. Any image hosted on another site will not be affected, it's just the ones hosted on the FISD site. After looking through the gallery I believe your the most active person using it.
I believe Paul made a backup of the gallery if a member didn't have a copy of their own picture.
Also to update your posts with pictures, you upload the pictures to a hosting service and edit the post inserting the img tag where you want the picture. It's really quite simple.