Visually integrating Coppermine with Joomla?

[cowgirlexpressions]

Hi all, I have Joomla 1.0.8 and SMF1.1RC2 successfully installed and bridged.  I also have Coppermine 1.4.4 successfully installed and bridged with SMF.  Now it seems the only option is to "wrap" the gallery inside of Joomla.  Has anybody successfully integrated the layout (not the users/db) so that the wrapper is not necessary?  I saw a third-party component for Joomla, but I'd like to stay away from that as it seems it's not really supported or recommended by the great folks here at Coppermine.  Any links to threads would be appreciated!  I'd like to note that I previously had Mambo 4.5.2.3, SMF 1.0.6 and Coppermine 1.3.2 successfully integrated, and was using a theme for Coppermine that allowed me to pull Joomla components/modules/menus ect in it and it worked like a charm.  However, after the upgrade, this didn't work anymore.

[pkonstan]

I am in the process of doing this right now and I am using this bridge

http://www.mehdiplugins.com/misc/

it works but you need to modify the css in coppermine to match your joomla site. I am actually deleting a lot of css like body, h1, h2, .td stuff like that.

here is where i am testing it http://intertapepolymerblog.com

yee haw!