Wow! Thank you!!!! That’s what it needed, all right. I followed your advice on clicking both options too. I love the Escape Key bail out! And I checked another one that used to be there as well: the forward and back arrows. So wonderful hearing from you, thanks again!
Shauno gave great advice that I followed at this link:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-is-it-possible-to-specify-url-links-in-thumbnails?replies=34
However, I just can’t get it so that SOME galleries are not affected. I got stuck when it said: ‘now for the galleries you want to use the custom links, call the code: [nggallery id=x template=gallery-customlinks] ” and later the thread said this code: “[nggallery id=x template=customlinks]” ‘. Where do you put that?