the fact that you couldn't see it right away ment that it couldn't be hotlinked.
its different becuase when your web Client goes to load the image file, it will send in an http 1.1 header called REFERER which will be
www.ridelaketahoe.com/alex/hotlinktest.asp and if the web server has some specific blocking method for calls with referer's that are not one of their domains it will be blocked.
if you open the image in a new window the file will be called with out a REFERER , actual http 1.1 headers look something like
HTTP/1.1
GET /images/mypictures.jpg
User-Agent: Mozilla
REferer:
http://www.blahblahblah.com/
etc etc
sounds like you need to adjust your caching setting on your browser. lol i should have done that for you when i was over yesterday. lol
set your browser to always check for a current copy. (also learn that manual cache del button)
