I sent off my enquiry to Photobucket yesterday asking why I couldn't access my account. I received this message in reply :

On Tuesday afternoon, some users that typed in the Photobucket.com URL were temporarily redirected to an incorrect page due to an error in our DNS hosting services. The error was fixed within an hour of its discovery, but due to the nature of the problem, some users will not have access to Photobucket for a few hours as the fix rolls out. It is important to note that only a portion of Photobucket users encountered the problem and that no Photobucket content, password information or other personal information was affected by the redirect.

Sincerely, Your Photobucket Support Team

I still can't access any of my graphics or photos that I saved, so I opened a new account today just for limited things.

I've lost faith in Photobucket I'm afraid, and knowing that my computer was dying, I put some pix in there that I didn't want to lose. Now it looks like I might have lost them anyway unless I can work out how to access them again.