MySQL database and Image Library (GD or ImageMagick)

[SigmaPi]

I am very new to all of this so please pardon my ignorance.  I hoping that someone can help.

I recently setup a forum on my fraternity chapter's website.  I am now trying to get an image gallery up. 

1st Question:   I have 1 MySQL database (DB) that I am running the forums on.  Do I need a seperate database to run the image gallery?  Or Can I just keep using the same DB (without disrputing the forums) for each script I run?  My provider only allows 1 DB.

2nd Question:   I've downloaded both GD Library and ImageMagick.  How do you actually set these things up?  I read the GD installation help and it talks about typing commands into the unix or windows console to build the library.  I don't think I have access to that kind of stuff on my host server - just FTP.  So how does this actually work?  I'm probably just missing something simple.

Thanks for reading.  Thanks even MORE if you can help!   

-Alan

[Tranz]

1) You can install both scripts in one dB. You can even integrate CPG with your forum, depending on what it is. If you do do that, you would have to have them in the same dB.

[Nibbler]

GD or IM would have to be installed by your host, in the majority of cases they are already on the server.

[Magical One]

problem with GD or ImageMagick is you have to edit a line in the php.ini widows and reboot the server?

[Joachim Müller]

re-read Nibbler's answer: you can only enable GD or ImageMgick if the server is your to administer. If you're webhosted, you can't install neither GD nor ImageMagick, no matter how often you're going to reboot the server.
If you're webhosted, do as suggested and contact your webhost. If the server is yours to adminsiter, post so.

Joachim