In my opinion I don't see the point. Just because webhosting and technical are there don't mean you have to go to them. I'm on dialup and all pages of the forum load in 2-4 seconds (everything's in the cache other than text and new member's avatars anyway). I'm assuming lhuser has broadband so it's not like the images are slowing down the forum.
From looking at the screenshots I think it looks better with a few of the standard vBulletin images enabled anyway. Just my opinion.