I'm glad you're getting the comics, I hope you are enjoying them...
and yeah it is true, everything you put up in Photobucket in a 'public' file is free to everyone to steal... but it you put it in a 'private' file then no one can ever seen it and you might as well not bother uploading it in the first place...
so I figure that my stuff just gets lost in the mix and I'm not likely to ever really worry about anyone taking any of my dull pics.

OTOH I do steal from photobucket all the time... I find a lot of my icons there!

Good luck on the unjinxed job hunt!