Organizational issue?

[cougar6]

Forgive my noobness, and after already posting in the wrong area, please bear with me.  I fully understand that public categories are admin-only property but I have to use the categories as an example of what I would like to do.  My question is how best to do this?  Here's the situation:
Apache web server on Linux with Coppermine bridged to Joomla!.  JACLPlus and Community Builder are also installed.
The Coppermine home page lists categories and sub-categories or albums.  I prefer not to show albums on the home page but just categories.  I wish to use a single Coppermine installation for several families with each family having their own category / sub-categories / albums.  The main family category clearly defines the contents of all photos residing therein, and each sub-category logically groups photos around a central theme (a single child for instance).  Under each sub-category (child in this example), each album logically groups photos from a single event or time period (Senior Prom, February 2007, whatever).  I do not wish to have a single family login nor do I want to have individual user albums because I cannot group every member of the same family under a single heading (that is, except under the general user category).  In my specific case, I would have 6 user galleries / albums for my immediate family alone.  So, without using Categories, or requiring me to create every category / album, or giving everyone admin rights and ending up on a sticky page about why NOT to give everyone admin rights, can I do this?  If I have missed this in the manual or after searching the forum (that's where I posted in the wrong area), please point me in the right direction.  Thanks.

[Joachim Müller]

As suggested on the other thread

I repeat: non-admin users can not create sub-categories nor albums within public galleries in Coppermine. No hack, no mod, no workaround. You simply can't do what you're up to.

: no, you can't do what you're up to. You (as admin) will have to create the categories, sub-categories and albums for your family members. They simply can't create their albums on their own. There is no workaround, no remedy, no hack, no trick, no mod, no plugin, no hidden voodo magic to circumvent the limitation.

[cougar6]

Ok.  I assume that you're comment about not being able to do what I'm up to refers to my actual question of can I provide category-like functionality without actually using categories.  My inclusion of categories in this post was simply to illustrate functionality as I stated in the original post

I fully understand that public categories are admin-only property but I have to use the categories as an example of what I would like to do. 

which makes everything after ": no, you can't do what you're up to. [...]" in your reply superfluous.  However, I would like to thank you for your replies and I will look elsewhere to find the desired functionality.  The categories really are cool and I was simply hoping to extend that functionality to my users.  Oh well.