Well....I've given this hack one more shot and I still can't get it to work. I've upgraded from vB 2.0.0 to 2.0.1....I also had the old version of the gallery zip file from 6/30 before the updated version was released on 7/1. I noticed that when I ran the old install file, the records that were created in the thumb table had data in them....at least when viewed through phpmyadmin, binary code was in each file. However....when after completing the installation, when you go to gallery.php, nothing appeared but a couple of lines and the forum nav bar.
I uninstalled everything. Downloaded the updated (7/1) version and reinstalled it. This time, it only took 2 seconds for the gallerytumbnail script to run....I knew that each record created in the table...was empty. Sure enough, I confirmed it. However, when going to gallery.php, everything appears except the actual thumbnails. So....somewhere along the way, something still isn't right.
The other thing I noticed is that the size of the gallery install script on 6/30 was only 6kb. The released version on 7/1 is 11kb. That's almost double in size. Why would the original 6/30 installation script seem to install data in the records, but the new version does not?
I've tried every single combination of fixes listed in this thread and no matter what I do, I can't get this to run.