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[curvemeister]

When I'm logged as curvemeister, which is the admin account, there are no buttons for creating albums. (first image)

Non administrative users on my site can create their own albums in the Personal gallery, using the usual buttons that appear at the top of the "My Galleries" window.  (second image)

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike Russell

[Nibbler]

Use the album manager.

[Joachim Müller]

RTFM: http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#albmgr

[curvemeister]

Thanks for both of your replies.  The album manager did the trick, thanks.  I got stuck on the fact
that the buttons in the "My Album" page were missing for the admin account.

Is it normal for the admin account to lack the "Create/Modify", and other buttons at the top of the
user gallery page?

[Nibbler]

Yes, the entire gallery is yours, no need to restrict the admin to a user gallery.

[curvemeister]

OK - Just to make sure I have it right:

1) the "My Gallery" areas for other users are not visible for the administrator in
the Album manager.  Instead user albums are accessed by drilling down into
the User galleries area, and clicking on buttons to delete or otherwise modify them.

2) the "Create/Modify" under "My Gallery,  buttons are never visible for the administrator.
Equivalent functionality is accessed by adding the album in the Album manager, then drilling
down as for a normal user.

[Joachim Müller]

yes: the menu bar | Create/order my albums | Modify my albums | My profile | Sort my pictures | actually is a light-weight admin menu bar (we refer to it as "user admin" menu) that exists instead of the full admin bar for non-admin users. With those menu entries, the "Regular" user is able to perform the tasks he's allowed to. They exist on the gallery admin menu bar as well - only the labels differ: "Create/oder my albums" is named "Albums" for the full gallery admin.
As suggested, the admin doesn't need to have a personal gallery - the whole site is his to administer, with categories and albums that he can use to organize his files nicely. If you absolutely need to have a personal allery, then create a non-admin user, log out of the admin account and use the non-admin account to upload stuff to your personal gallery and only use your admin account to actually administer your site.
Please read the docs and experiment with the possibilites coppermine offers before asking further questions.

[curvemeister]

Great answer, and much appreciated.  So much so that I'll be nice and pretend you did not say the last part.