I had to read this several times before I figured out what it was saying....and then I said fan-frickin'-tastic!
What would you say to Gallery Remote support for Drupal's built-in image.module galleries? I put together a module that implements the Gallery Remote APIs, allowing Drupal to pretend to be the Menalto Gallery application, using Drupal's native storage and management of images.
Let me translate: Sam Revitch built a Drupal module that implements the Gallery Remote protocol, so that third-party systems like Zach Wily's iPhoto plugin can mass upload images into Drupal. Woo-hoo!
Update: Oh, and of course, the XP Publishing Wizard works, too.