webnerd612, this sounds cool. Have you considered submitting your changes for a gallery organized by month to the community? SF.net has a section for you to submit patches. Some (many) of these patches are subsequently merged with the mainline, so they're officially supported and you no longer have to hand-merge every new Gallery release.
I'm glad you figured it out
I'm in the process of rewriting the code that fetches the list of albums from Gallery to make it faster and not quite so bandwidth-consuming.
If you could cross-post to that subject, it would be great, although it's a different issue; it's better to have too much info than too little.