I printed off a ton of pages from the photobucket pages on here and they all turned out grainy. now I went from yours to mine to my iphoto. Is that why? Should I do something different?
Sounds like you didn't download the full resolution images.
When a thumbnail is opened in Photobucket, for example, it only opens to somewhere less than 80% of the image. You need to ZOOM it and then download...
go to Photobucket
double-click on selected image
move mouse to upper left
click on zoom in (sometimes the double click does this but be sure!)
then and only then move mouse to position to click on download