unfortunately that method didn't work. in theory it should have. but it didn't. to make a really long story short. I ended up installing, uninstalling, reconfiguring hard code then reinstalling then configuring again in the admin and it worked.
By the way, this is excellent. Now my {mosimage} can use my gallery images! Maybe in future versions you guys ought to consider coding for the galleries to create in the images/stories/ folder so that others can use it. I also ended up dumping about 500 photo's just to get this to work.
on another note- when you turn the status off in the display in the config it moves the titles of the galleries over to far to the left
on yet another note- my display is now off and I can't modify the code to fix it
( see here:
http://mountaineerfarm.com/gallery/931.html )