Thanks @photocrati.
I did contact your support team before posting here. Your support team responded telling me:
I’m very sorry, but we are unable to help assist with advanced customization of the plugin.
and then:
I’d suggest posting your coding query to our forums here in case another NextGEN user has made the same customization: http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery
So that’s why I’m posting here.
Should I re-contact support?