Constructor Theme breaks latest NextGEN Gallery release

I just updated my NextGEN gallery to version 1.7.0 and now the admin panel functions for NextGEN no longer function. When I switch to a theme other than Constructor, everything is fine.

I am using the latest Constructor version 1.3.1. When running this with the latest NextGEN 1.7.0, I see get a page error warning in IE as follows:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:21:11 UTC

Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 99
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://{my url}/wp-content/themes/constructor/admin/js/settings.js?ver=3.0.3

The front-end functions for NextGEN gallery still seem to work. It’s only the back-end functions in the admin panel that are broken.

Details of the NextGEN issues it creates are described here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-after-nextgen-170-upgrade-most-backend-functions-not-operational-1

Please help. I have put a lot of time into customizing my Constructor themed site, and now it isn’t operational. I know Constructor was designed with NextGEN gallery in mind, so I hope this issue can be resolved quickly.

Thanks.