Ok, here is the latest and greatest, hopefully this will end up helping someone else out and save them the frustration I went through!
1. This applies as far as I know to my Joomla 1.0.11 and Coppermine V1.49 installs & bridge
2. The reason I wanted to use XP Publishing Wizard this way was due to the low impact the upload had on the server as compared to, the high impact and the warnings I got from my hosting company when trying to import photos from the FTP folder I upload them too. Importing this way caused the server processor to go over 20% and thus I would be shut down for many minutes until the server recovered. (Note: The pictures never would finish upload either
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3. I finally figured out VIA the bridge makers FAQ (How I missed it was beyond me) that the XP Publishing Wizard doesn't work with his bridge
4. What I did then was I found a plugin for Coppermine call CPGMassimport (
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=27566.msg127318#msg127318 ) This delays the importing of photos from your FTP photos folder hence reducing the strain on the server (Server / Hosting company very happy, no more shutting down)
5. I find out that although it imports the photos, and I can see the thumbnails, the albums are not created and I get errors when clicking on the thumbs nails.
MY FINDINGS & ANSWER
1. Undo the bride from the Admin Tools in Coppermine, Upload your photos via XP Publishing Wizard or VIA the Mass Import PlugIn
2. Go back into the Admin Tools in Coppermine and redo the bridge function
3. Check to see that your photos are imported properly.
This seems to work for me, after MANY MANY nights and frustrating research I hope this continues to work for me and hopefully will help others.
I worry that at some point when I rebridge Coppermine that something may go wrong, but maybe I am worrying for nothing. As I stated earlier I really do not know PHP so I do not know what effects the briding funcion might have on these two pieces of software.
Good Luck