Well after a lot of twoing and frowing i’ve decided to ditch Gallery all together I managed to get it embedded into serendipity but it still didn’t look how I wanted (I know i’m a fussy git) plus it had loads of features which I just don’t need, so I decided to try zenphoto which I used to have on my home server it’s much more suited to my needs and not so many bells and whistles plus my favourite feature is that I can create albums using directories and then just ftp the images to it which I find more reliable than URL uploading.