Happy Fathers Day to Dads who may make the trip here..
suggestion for the user GUI in future 7.+ or 8. - Leaving the fixed amount of photo's as an option to be shown ( where ever one wants ) most oft on the front page, or have an added option for ( I noted you play with lightbox vs shadowbox ) rotating images that one can click and have the image popup in a lightbox or shadowbox container and turn into a slide show. I added a rotator at: http://www.myneighbors.net front page - and had a shadowbox see more call with height/width and it worked well..but that is not integrated into admin. The rotator is still up, but I linked it to the actual image it shows so the text about the image could be read.
I also noted my problems with 7.1.6 were just that, my induced problems.. so disregard my gray bearded chatter about any issues I may have mentioned.
suggestion for the user GUI in future 7.+ or 8. - Leaving the fixed amount of photo's as an option to be shown ( where ever one wants ) most oft on the front page, or have an added option for ( I noted you play with lightbox vs shadowbox ) rotating images that one can click and have the image popup in a lightbox or shadowbox container and turn into a slide show. I added a rotator at: http://www.myneighbors.net front page - and had a shadowbox see more