I did something very stupid...
When I set up coppermine, I proceeded to add all my albums backwards. I thought having the newst albums up front would be nicer. It wasn't until I finished adding 9895 pictures in 389 albums that I relized the mistake. If I want to add a new album, sorted in the same way, it will renumber all the old albums, breaking any links people might have.
I initially started reordering them through the "album" interface, but the redraws when I got to where things were off screen was so slow that I gave up.
Is there any utility to numerically sort the albums quickly? The names of the albums are just dates, like today would be 20040103.
Thanks!
perhaps this sticky is what your looking for?
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=29&highlight=advanced+album