has the method of posting photos changed in the last few weeks?
i have been on vacation and was going to post some photos but
the method seems to have changed to adding a long web site
address of some sort when before i could just pick from a
list of photos in "my documents"..

I have always used the image tag to post a photo referencing a site like Photobucket, Example:

To show this picture of the lovely weather at the top of Tuckernam's Ravine last Saturday, you would include the URL pointing to the photo between two IMG tags in brackets. I'm not sure how to "show" it without having the picture show up, so I'll use { instead of [, hope that makes sense

{IMG]http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w111/Be_Prepared/FH000010.jpg[/IMG}

(If you change the open { with [ and close } with ] you get:

No changes have been made w/ the software recently.