[Plugin: Shashin] Using Shashin in a theme

I’d like to use Shashin in my theme. Id like to have Shashin create an unordered list(prefer this over a table but a table will do) with the thumbnails of the images from an album. The album key is gathered from a custom field and passed on to Shashin. I have tried the following:
echo Shashin::getAlbum( $album_key );
However this generates a link that you have to click on to show the table.

Is there a function I could call that will have Shashin generate this table without having to click the link first? It looks like I want the functionality of the [salbumphotos] tag, but I want to call this in my code and not in the_content();. It would be really cool if this generated an unordered list (more fluid for my theme) instead of a table, but that may just wishful thinking. 🙂

Chris

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shashin/