Okay. On another note, I think you may want to give guests the following permission for the forums in the Image namespace "Can view thumbnails?" (for the thumb parameter) and perhaps "Can download attachments?" (if you don't use the thumb parameter) Otherwise the images are broken.
Also, I don't know if you're aware that this feature was recently added. For images with the "thumb" parameter -- if your users want to view a larger image, simply clicking the image will open it full-size in the lightbox.