You might be interested to know about a new view type that's now included in the image module: an image gallery view for image nodes.This is in the latest 5.x-2.x-dev release of image. Existing galleries and blocks are reimplemented as views.

Nifty, I was waiting for this. There's even very detailed documentation on using the image module and views in Drupal to generate your galleries. Link to the CVS commit of the image module using views for galleries.