Photobucket doesn't make the 1st pic a link, the site's software has a problem with the images if you have a space anywhere in the Photobucket link. Say you have an album called "My Pics", since there is a space in the album name, when you put the full link "photobucket.com/texan/my%pics/lol.jpg" the % that takes place of the space in your album name, and for what ever reason, messes with the forum software and it refuses to show a pic. Take the space out of the album name (or use an underscore _) and it no longer does this.
Don't ask me why the site does it, but I've noticed it does this on sites that use this forum software.
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