I was about to return and study and vote, and thought it was my failed 'search.' Really wish it were my problem, and not your real problem!

It is not unusual for new winners to have trouble posting their first polls...Be gentle with yourself...

We will catch them when you have them posted.

All I did wrong was waste a morning working on the contest. I guess I'll just blow it off until they fix their problems, go out and enjoy the day.

All that hard work and something out of your control ruins it.

but when I posted the long thread today I did it with photobucket and had no problems. You have my sympathy. Even when nothing goes wrong posting the submission threads is a tricky job (except for some pros here in the photo group, you know who you are)
Crossing my fingers for your next attempt.

I just got back and see photobucket is back up. I was just frustrated because it took hours and making sure everything was OK, and it was, and I didn't know what went wrong, and I was under pressure to do something fast, so I self deleted without thinking of copying the text... I've never self deleted a post before, I guess I used it as a panic button! But I had no idea what the reason was... I could see all the pictures from my browser's memory cache so that is why all looked fine to me.

So I'm just beginning it over tomorrow morning, ugh! But I was really stoked for the contest starting this morning... maybe tomorrow too?

I am very sorry for your loss of time and energy. I save the threads in separate folders til all is said and done. Meaning: the winner is declared
Maybe now you will do that as well.