well Nadia I found a solution! You gave me just enough information to get my brain working out its own solution. Oddly enough I over complicated the video so it wouldnt work and over simplified the photos so they wouldnt work!
I used photobucket instead of learning Russion.
photobucket.com/
will get you to their sign up page. Its free but best of all for me it has an ipad/iphone app wich means I can take a photo or video and upload it immediately so it will be in my album for the next tiem I get on my laptop. Saves me heaps of time (no syncing!).
Basically you need to upload the photo, using the big silver upload button, then hover over the photo in your album, click on the last option that pops up, it will automatically copy then just paste it into the forum (control V) simple and Manda proof!