Success! My problem was solved by the lovely people over at the #wordpress IRC channel. If you are having this same problem, here’s the trick:
Delete ALL files within the wp-content/cache… specifically the index.php. This did the trick for me 🙂
It’s not quite a photolog. A lot of the plugins I’ve seen are more geared to a photoblog that takes up the entire site. This is just a small section. I had difficult with the gallery integration type plugins.
Couldn’t I just make a simple php loop or something?