Hi!

I will be hosting traditional photographs as well as virtual panoramas and stereographs on my website. I would like to have one album style for traditional photographs, and a different style for the virtual panoramas and stereographs. I know how to work with themes as I've made my own theme from the ground up, but I don't know how to have zenphoto use a different album.php for a specific gallery, lets call it album_pano.php. I see that in the Admin panel where you edit albums you can set a different theme for a specific album. While I could do this, it seems a bit of a dirty hack to create a whole new theme to use just one different album_pano.php.

My second question is about integrating the panoramas themselves. I will use primarily HTML5 panoramas with a flash fallback. I would like to be able to use zenphoto to manage the thumbnail and description, and when clicked it should load the panorama's custom html. Which functions should I use?

Thank you kindly

What you are looking for is this:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/multiple_layouts

Alternatively you can also use the object model to check for the current album name to do all wihtin one album.php as well. But above is for sure the easiest.