Batch creation of albums

I'm working on an integration project with Gallery and need to create an album and set the album properties programatically. This will be part of an new account registration process and at that point, I don't want the user to have to interact with gallery. Once the registration is approved, they will sign into the Portal and their album will have admin access to their album.

I probally need to directly call the Gallery album classes.
Has anyone done this before or would be able to provide some direction.

Other then view_album.php - is there some code that you would direct me to that would illustrate the right sequence of calls I need to make?

Thanks,
Blaine