The trouble with the pictures not showing up is due to the filter replacing the long strings of numbers. That part of the filter is built-in and I do now know how to hack that.
I could turn off the filter entirely, but then we get spam and bad words and lose the ability to use the BBcode that everyone seems to like. Many of bad words that are filtered out are quite shocking, and so I do not consider this to be a viable option.
I've spent some time going in circles and have now found some add-ons to the filter that _I think_ will allow certain links to come through. But I'll need to turn off the site to add those, so that is something I'll wait to do in the middle of the night.
So what I need to know beforehand is... where do you host your images?
Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Photobucket - are there any others that I am missing?
I'm not entirely certain that this will solve the problem, but it looks promising, and I wanted to update you to let you know I'm working on it.
--- Bobbi