They say there arn't any safe modes in place
who's saying that? the errormessage says that safemode is on.
anyway - you can use the gallery with safemode on:
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1375&highlight=safemodein english:
everytime you do a new category, the scripts writes folders in to the folders "media" and "thumbnail". they are named "1", "2", and so on.
when safemode is on, the gallery don't work afterwoods.
the workaround: make the needed files (1,2,...) by hand in your ftp-client and changemod them to 777 (in "media" AND "thumbnail". after that the script is working properly.
i hope, my not that good english is understandabel. greetings from switzerland. patrick