I never use Anondale (sp) their free image hosting. I have gone to too many auctions and found links that failed or servers that were having problems. If that's what it is, it's the free picture hosting, which has problems now and then.

Same for the free counters which are hit and miss.

If you have any hosting with your account, use it instead. Of course this doesn't apply to some people who have multiple IDs and don't want to be traced back to all of their shill accounts. But for the rest of us, link to your own pages, where you can control the images.