Thanks Sbillard,
That's the only thing I've tried so far; when I do that, the first page of the search results is empty, but page #2 onwards starts displaying the images alone perfectly with no albums.. the thing I deleted was the section with
<?php while (next_album()): $c++;?> to endwhile
I'm using the default theme with v1.1, would the new version allow this to work or should it work all the same?
Thanks for the help,
Rachel