Image Module | Uploading Twice

Hello,
I would like to share my difficulties in dealing with image gallery and also the localizer in Drupal.

For your information, my website has two translations (English and Malay)

Each time I upload the images, it will only appear in English translation. When I go to another translation (Malay) I can't see the images that I've uploaded. That's because there's translation in image nodes.

Internationalization (i18n) Module ( http://drupal.org/project/i18n )
What I want is, I want you include the ability like Internationalization (i18n).

i18n can disable the translation for image nodes. Once we have the translation disabled, we don't have to upload the images twice. (one for English and one for Malay translation, believe me it's tiring me like mad and eating up my FTP server space)

Problem with Internationalization (i18n)
I don't wanna go for i18n module because I hate the 'sudden logout' problem.

IMCE+FCKEditor Module:- ( http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor )
Also there's another module called IMCE with the combination of FCKeditor where they would allow me to upload the images.

Problem with IMCE+FCKEditor:-
- The uploading is tiring me like mad because I have to upload one image by one image.
- I also got to deal with many pop-up for an image upload.

Node Images Module:- ( http://drupal.org/project/node_images )
It's a module that has a gallery and image uploader.

Problem with Node Images:-
- I like it but again I have to upload the images twice.
- My FTP server space will be running out faster (out of space).