I've looked at gallery before and agree it's a great resource. Worth a look.
As for the do it yourself approach, you could keep your images and thumbs in their respective folders, and sure you could create a table in MySql (using something like phpMyAdmin, if your host has it?). The table could just have a few fields in each record that contain links to the images, thumbs, maybe a unique record ID#, description, etc.
The catch is, the pages that use the database would need to be in a server-side format such as php or asp, because you'll need to use some server-side language in your code to access them.
So either way, some url's are going to have to change. Which brings up the next step, using a 301 redirect to the new urls -- and there are threads here that give instructions on that as well.
:)
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