Ok so I found a solution to the photo gallery but it isn't exactly what I had hoped. I signed up for a Flickr account and I will be using that to host images. This is because Windows Live Photo Gallery has a Publish To feature directly to Flickr. The fact that I have been using and recommending Live Photo Gallery to just about everyone I know for other reasons, such as the ability to make panoramic's and the way that it organizes and index's photos and the pictures folders in Vista and XP. 

The next thing that lead me to use Flickr was the Slide Show be Vertigo. This has a lot of features and a lot of ways that it can be used to present the images. It does not have a lot of choices for where it gets the data for the galleries. It uses a single file that holds the information, data.xml,  the file contains the information for the pictures such as the location, thumbnail location, and description

   1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

   2: <data startalbumindex="5" transition="CrossFadeTransition">

   3:     <album

   4:         title="Animals"

   5:         description="Photos of several animals (cross fade transition)"

   6:         image="../../Images/a29.jpg">

   7:         <slide

   8:             title="Monterey Aquarium Exhibit — Jellies: Living Art"

   9:             description="Photo taken by Alan Le"

  10:             image="../../Images/s07.jpg"

  11:             thumbnail="../../Images/t07.jpg" />

  12: ....

  13: <slide

  14:     title="1/1000"

  15:     description="Photo taken by Scott Stanfield"

  16:     image="../../Images/s19.jpg"

  17:     thumbnail="../../Images/t19.jpg" />

  18: bum>

  19: </data>

Now, if I wasn't lazy I would just accept that every time I upload an image I would have to edit the data.xml file manually to add the items. But I am lazy and I do not want to have to edit it every time I upload a photo. By using Flickr it allows for people to "stumble" accross some of my images, and it would do an automatic update to the slide show pages, also add new galleries as well. The only down side I have found so far is that I cannot organize it manually. I am still looking in the control sets for how to organize it alphabetically. Overall though that isn't a real down side because it will show the newer galleries first. It also does not show newest modified galleries first, so if I add an image it does not put that "set" at the top, but keeps it in order of newest "set" first. 

I am going to go ahead and wait about a week and see if I get any complaints about it. It does require Silverlight.

Here is my gallery

Here is my Flickr