I've finally devoted some time to my photo album and made sure clicking on photos had a somewhat more consistent behavior - i.e., that clicking on a tinted photo took you to that photo and a thumbnail listing for that month, which was the primary usability gaffe the album had.
This had the unpleasant side effect ot considerably lenghtening the page (since the thumbnails for a single month usually form an extremely long column), but I'm contemplating some layout changes to deal with that (and figure out a way to fit in some sort of calendar navigation as well...).