I'd like to make a great big apology to those readers of mine who have been complaining about a lot of photo's that simply would NOT display for them either in the post or when clicked on. I was having no real trouble getting to them from my end so I assumes there was some strange browser settings out there that may have been causing problems on the end users.
Well I finally figured out what the problem was. Google just sort of took it upon themselves to change the security settings on my two oldest Picassa albums such that you needed a "direct link" to view the images. This caused a good portion of about the first 2 years (or so) of posts to no longer display images.
I believe I've taken care of the problem but if you run across any issues please let me know. Thanks for your patience!