Albert thanks for that response. I had forgotten about the test forums. Sue...thanks for your help. :-) I managed to straighten it all out yesterday. Tinypic was very easy to work with. I contacted them through their website and they explained to me how to find the address and all I had to do was send that to them and they removed it within 15 minutes. Yes, it left the red Xs just like the photobucket removals. I am going to slow down and be more careful what I am posting..lol. They had to start a new thread after my photo was causing everyone to scroll from left to right to read it. *sigh* All worked out now though... :-) thanks a lot! pm2

"Just my guess but I find the plants grow best if you keep them together." Maybe soil disturbance and propagation leads to setback and then the plant needs time to adjust? I think I'll leave it for now then. Come spring and summer, I may give it a repot and see how attached the leaf is to the plant. If it grows another pup, then I will certainly leave it alone. Thanks, Stush.

Thanks both for your comments! I'd love to tear down the entire thing and start over, and build a proper one because this one was just designed and built so poorly. Not sure I'll actually go through with that as of yet, but glad to know that it's unsafe to remove the 'extra' posts. The posts aren't even 8' tall, they're around 82", so I have some thinking to do about this area...

I don't know about where you live, but around here they actually use engineering and math to figure out how many posts and where. I know a special idiot who removed several of his and his house started sagging, doors wouldn't close.....