Careful, Will. I might take your shiny new capital letter away from you.
And for the record, they were IP banning folks around here a long time before I ever even joined TFP.
As for Photobucket, unless you've really violated the terms of service or done something to otherwise piss them off (which seems unlikely to me), then my guess is that your provider may have some issues. But that's a random guess from a guy with a roll of toilet paper under his avatar.