I've been looking for a way to include a news module into 4images too, in fact I still am.
I would love to let my visitors post news and I know I can do this by the use of an external news script but that will result in users having to subscribe again at multiple different scipts. It would be nice to include many things into the 4images script and make it more like a (galleries) Portal.
Cheers,
Vraxor