yeah the permissions weren’t automatically set when it creates a thumbnail. so it was displaying a broken image link. I have to log onto my server and update them manually. I’ll have to find a way to do this automatically.
Maybe i’ll just FTP everything: create thumbnails on my own using photoshop and then ftp ’em up (when I ftp something it automatically gives it the desired permissions). Also because i can’t find an easy-to-use, easy-to-setup WP plugin that lets me decide the size of the thumbnail.