Good morning Michelle, all,
great to have you around here, helping!
Michelle Cox wrote:
There are known problems with 1.3. When drupal.org comes back up, check the issue queue for image.
Thanks for _that_ hint. I had read the issues some days before, and they indicating me no problems to expect.
But today (after your hint) I discovered that issue exactly describing my problem ... and 'drewish' having fixed it with a new 1.4 version of the image module.
So I downloaded the new version, followed the instructions (take site into maintenance mode, upload the new version to the life site, run the update.php script, revert the site to up_and_running state again) ... voila, the problems are gone!!!
Thanks a lot Michelle!
best regards, Georg