Firstly: I've managed to get the random images working (yay! but I was unable to remove the 'Li' tags any other way than editing the functions.php file, is there a better way of doing things?), I would like the random image displayed to direct the viewer to the album it sits in and not the image itself - as I'm using a lightbox/slimbox script for viewing images and image.php is a bit redundant (and unstyled!). Is there a way to make this possible?
Oh and only show this random image on the first index page and not any other subsequent ones page 2, 3 4 etc?

Secondly: I'm trying, unsuccessfully to place a list of albums into a sidebar within the album.php file - for direct access to a specific album rather than go back to the index page and then through the pages that way. I found 'printAlbumMenuListAlbum' in the Docs but seem to be falling flat when trying to implement it. I'm unclear how to get the function to work as each time I try the page just goes blank, not quite sure what I'm doing wrong...

Thirdly: Merry Christmas!

1a. [i]Is there a way to make this possible? That is the wrong question as nearly everything is possible. You have to do some customizing doing your own function for that.
1b. Check for the page with a simple if/else.

2. printAlbumMenuList is a function of the print_album_menu plugin (which is clearly noticable on the doc) and needs of course to be enabled.

3. You too..:-)[/i]

ah ha, thanks very much for all that.
1 - I've found 'getAlbumLinkURL' seems to be about right and trying to get that working. I'm getting there - at present it just ends up as "mysite.com/gallery/index.php?album=" and then stops there. I'm missing something somewhere. I'll look a bit harder and see what does/doesn't break it!
2 - sorted - I'm a fool for not checking in the first place, doh!
3 -