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The good news is it seems to be a hotlinking issue, which I don't understand very well. I had the anti-hotlinking turned on, and always have. Apparently the little goofs know how to get around me.
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I had one that was using jscript on the client's computer to steal the bandwidth. That will render your .htaccess (aka hotlink protection) useless unless you block blank referrers. You can beat them though if the page with the thumbs is php by using 6 lines of PHP to write the user's host IP address to a deny/allow directive in your .htaccess for that directory. IOW, if they dont hit your PHP page, they dont get the pictures. end of story. add in the normal hotlinking protection and at that point, all the hotlinker can do is open your page in a frame, which is good for you because it's free advertising. Give him a day of that then add a framebusting jscript and you are now stealing his traffic every time he tries to use your page.