Hi Jesse,
Welcome back, by the way. I can tell by the posts you've written already that you're going to be an asset to have around!

I don't remember any of the details, but there was something within the past year or so where we had to lose user names / profiles of non-active members who had not logged in or posted in x number of months. Hopefully someone with a clearer memory can chime in, but I suspect that influenced your search results.

As for the pictures, they are generally just links to another site that is storing them, right? So it would depend on the photo being stored in photobucket or whatever server it is in, I would presume. Maybe someone more tech-savvy who is laughing at my explanation right now will set us both straight!