Problems uploading images in WP 2.7

I have been trying to upload images to a site which is on Wordpress 2.7 using the Arthemia theme. The problem I was having using the media uploader was that after I uploaded the image, it went to the gallery. I could see that the file had uploaded to the uploads folder. The only problem was that when I went to insert it into the post,the screen went blank and nothing happened.

This was obviously a common problem and there are numerous posts about this on the net and support forum. One of the issues might be incompatible plugins which interfere with the adding images process. These have been identified as:

NextGen Gallery
Bad behaviour
WP-Amazon
CommentLuv

There are probably more but these are teh most common ones so far.

Unfortunately, even after disabling all the plugins, it did not help . I could still not upload any images.

The next thing to try was to make the htaccess changes as suggested by this post.

I also tried the suggestions on here Nothing worked.

In the end, I decided that it was something to do with the theme and the version of wordpress. I was using 2.7. Am now upgrading to 2.8 and switching to a theme where it is tried and tested with lots of support. Sometimes you just can’t fight the code, make your own life easier and go with the simplest option.