Want "summary" to be shown with photo as well as on thumbnails page

GAH! Okay so all this plug-in and themes and programming stuff is great, but how about something simple, like the summary text I just entered for the 200+ pics in my album also can be shown on individual picture pages?

Or, if it can, how about a simple bit of documentation to show how? Or even if it is there, how about a way to ask a question that doesn't require registration, account validation, and login?

I want to use Gallery for something very simple: putting together pictures to show people back home. And to that end I would like to have descriptions on pictures to give them some explanation. But as I imagine they will likely go to larger pictures and click previous/next buttons, the last two hours I've spent on that are largely wasted.

I'd also like some way to mass-edit summaries, so I don't have to click, edit photo, enter the description, scroll down, click, go back to album...but it's freeware, fine, I'll accept no one's programmed that yet, if ever. But something as simple as showing the summary with the picture seems pretty core, to me. Maybe it's in the custom fields? I don't know, when I add it to the list, there are no configurable options and it doesn't seem to actually do anything.

Matrix.

I didn't want to write a separate description for each of the pictures, and duplicating the text didn't seem right either, so I just figured the summary would be with the individual pics too.

I guess I'll go poking around in the database and see if I can copy the fields over, then, because with this interface it would likely take me an hour or so to copy the summaries into the description for all of them.