Don't take it hard at all. We're just including you in on the gentle ribbing that we all give each other here in the Foamie Family. Consider yourself as a welcomed member!
Upside down pics are better than no pics. I can flip my net pad over if I really want to see something.
So I'm thinking that the problem has to do with your external links. I know when I correct orientation of my pics in the browser on my net pad, it remembers and displays them that way, but when I load them to my gallery here, from the same files, they revert back to the orientation that they were taken in. In the submit step (or from the edit screen) in your forum gallery you can instruct the forum how to orient the pic (90 left, 90 right, or 180).
If you care to bother, maybe you could try loading a pic to your gallery provided here on the forum and see if that helps.

If you've never done that, look at "help with photos" on the "Forum Problems" pull down menu at the top of the screen, or just select 'Gallery" on the upper right, scroll down a ways until you see you user name listed, click on that and follow along (add an image, browse for your pic file, continue, edit the file name if you like, select the applicable orientation button, and submit.
Getting them into a post is explained in the help with photos thread.