I bought a domain and use that instead.
Sure, it costs about £20 annually and you need an FTP program, but at least you can organize it how you like, can upload the occasional MP3 or spreadsheet, it's much faster when loading pages here, etc etc.
I'll put in a good word for DropBox. 4gig free. Integrates with Windoze/Mac/Linux. Drag and drop photos into Public folder, then right-click to get public URL. paste that between some
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[img]your handy dandy Dropbox public URL here[/img]
Google Chrome, Ad-block plus (with fanboys list) and Flashblock and you won't see anything you don't want to see. Photobucket is perfectly usable with this setup.
Another on to add to the list of feature casualties
I used to use the slideshows a lot in Ebay listings, they were cool, but the new version of the feature is just static images, no control over their sizes or anything