okay i'm probably just being extremely blonde and its something veryyy obvious, but.
http://www.ashleyfan.net/gallery/index.php - i want this to just show the main categories (movies, tv, events, photoshoots, scans & misc) on the main page. so, in config, under 'album list view' i changed 'the content of the main page' option to 'breadcrumb/catlist/random,2/lastup,2', but its still showing the albums under photoshoot on the main page.
Disable 'Show first level album thumbnails in categories' in config.
Update your gallery.
...and put alblist back to where you removed it.