Sorry for the delay in replying earlier, I got caught up playing with it and adjusting some things. For some strange reason admin.inc.php didn't upload the first time...i uploaded it and everything so far is working great! I have installed a second gallery, and the config works just fine thankfully. During both installations I got the text below at the very beginning,
Versioncheck output
Path Missing Permissions Version Revision Modified Comment Repository link
register.php 1.5.3 () 7103 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
docs/en/translation.htm 1.5.3 () 7261 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
images/thumbs/thumb_movie.png n/a () n/a () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
images/thumbs/thumb_swf.png n/a () n/a () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
images/thumbs/thumb_z.png n/a () n/a () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
include/transliteration.inc.php 1.5.3 () 6985 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
include/functions.inc.php 1.5.3 () 7270 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
lang/bulgarian.php 1.5.3 () 7205 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
lang/chinese_gb.php 1.5.2 () 7217 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
lang/english.php 1.5.3 () 7236 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
lang/english_gb.php 1.5.3 () 6985 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
lang/finnish.php 1.5.3 () 7199 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
lang/french.php 1.5.3 () 7242 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
lang/polish.php 1.5.3 () 7199 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
lang/russian.php 1.5.3 () 7205 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
plugins/onlinestats/index.php 1.5.3 () 6985 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
sql/schema.sql 1.5.3 () 7167 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
themes/curve/style.css 1.5.3 () 7275 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
themes/curve/template.html 1.5.3 () 7263 () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
themes/curve/theme.php n/a () n/a () Modified (?) File may be corrupt (or you have deliberately edited it).
but it allowed me to continue the installation so I did. I hope I don't end up with some problems later, but it said "potential issues" so I figured I'd give it a go anyway! Thanks again for your help with everything.
Brad