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as for issue:
b) the 'missing side bar' was a line of code i overlooked. not a bug, a feature!

i'm actually quite embarassed i missed it...

see the lines in the gallery2.php file in the first post:

// user interface: disable sidebar in G2 and get it as separate HTML to put it into a block
    GalleryCapabilities::set('showSidebar', false);

well, if u comment out that showsidebar false, it works.. heh!

i.e., change it to:

// user interface: disable sidebar in G2 and get it as separate HTML to put it into a block
    //GalleryCapabilities::set('showSidebar', false);

what's going on there is that i saw a sample code using that and they are not showing the side bar so they can make it a block in their CMS manager.

for instance, i'm using vBAdvanced and eventually plan on making the 'sidebar' controls a block on the left hand menu.

why? real estate... i'll get my left hand VB menu, PLUS my gallery2 left hand menu. (only on the G2 pages of course!)

i havn't figured out how to do that just yet (havn't messed w/ it much) so in the interim, i've just commented out that line and you'll instantly get the side G2 'bar'.

revisiting issue:
a) mod_rewrite

G2 'holy hand grenade' has integration mod_rewrite issues. it has already been corrected according to the G2 developers, and u can grab it via the CVS if u like.

i'm going to wait about a week or so and hope that the next beta release of G2 comes out. looking at their timeline, they have seemed to release udpates about every 4-5 weeks. if this pattern holds, we should have a release soon!

if not, i'll go the CVS route.

as for the other known issue, the VB salt pw vs. G2's 'regular' pw, no news on that front. but... as long as your users enter through the VB site, all is well!

HTH!

and lmk if u guys come across any other bugs!! once i get around to putting the G2 sidebar into vBAdvanced, i'll post that too! (no ETA, it's low priority compared to the other gazillion things i need to do to the site from the migration of postnuke)