Mike,
There is a photobucket fix available for those who use the Chrome browser. It's called Photobucket embed fix and is available at the link below. I added this extension to Chrome and all the old photobucket photos came back. Don't know of any down sides but for now it works.
There also may be fixes for other web browsers.
Here is the link to the fix.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-embed-fix/naolkcpnnlofnnghnmfegnfnflicjjgj?hl=en