Have been playing about with gallery and drupal this last month as my daughter is about to graduate and join the real world and wanted a gallery website to display her ceramic art, so please have a look at her Ceramic Art Gallery Website.
I also found a great bit of code at www.flashyourweb.com to create a slideshow from the pictures in your gallery, I have included an example in this page:
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