A better Drupal gallery module/tutorial

I need someone to tutor me in the creation of a very nice Drupal gallery. This person will almost definitely have to write a custom module or alter existing modules. ## Deliverables Bulk upload, XML or CSV to input fields (so you don't have to target, click, wait... type, target, click, wait... type, target, browse, upload, wait... ... ... ..., preview. Possibly make a mistake. Edit... ... ...). That's where my request began. I've got over 7000 images to upload and describe, and I'd rather use an XML file and hopefully some kind of autocomplete widget. I am so sick of searching google and finding all these crap Drupal tutorials and tutorial videos with poor vocabulary. Gallery > Album > Item > Image. It's simple, but somehow they always manage to mess it up. With the imagecache module, an image can become any kind of image proof: a thumbnail, a 75% jpg quality fullscreen display of the photo on an item node, .or just a downloadable 'carbon copy'. The actual image or "image file" should be in a secure location, which they usually don't mention in tutorials or tutorial videos for Drupal--a non-web-accessible folder on the server. Galleries should contain albums and thumbnail proofs of "images" from items within albums within respective galleries. Every user might have his or her own gallery, or an entire drupal site might only contain one gallery that all the users build as a community. When the gallery is opened, a brief summary of each album's contents should be displayed, alongside the album's title, album's author (if any), a thumbnail proof of one of the images from one of the items within its respective album (alongside the image author's name and the item title), and a feature to sort by and refine which albums are being shown. Albums are a little different. They should contain item author information, links to item nodes along with thumbnail proofs of images from their respective item pages, and brief summaries of each item node, respectively: item summaries. At the top of the page, there should also be an album description. Which item is being shown within the album also needs to be sortable and refineable (sorting and refining may contain quantitative values: min to max). Items may or may not contain images. In some situations, people have to pay to access item pages. In many situations, people have to pay to access higher quality images (for example, an item page may only contain a 400x400 "page view" image and a 650 x 650 full-screen, watermarked or reduced quality "proof" of the original image). If someone wants to download the original image, they can, but the site admin should be able to restrict that right, as well as the right to download or screenshot any of the proofs. So, what is an "item node"? An item node is a node that contains information about the image. It should be able to adapt an unlimitted number of custom fields that can be utilized by the bulk upload tool. It should contain a description of the image/proof, a list of sizes available and sizes that can be made available, a brief summary (this is what will be shown as the description of the item on the album page), etc. The bulk upload tool should be able to draw titles of item pages from image names by default or have the user input the title, select the destination album, type in the location of the picture on the server, and input information on all the fields and custom fields. If access is right, as set by the administrator (i.e., via nodeaccess or permissions), an user should be able to view, add, and edit content. They should be able to possibly delete their own content. They should be able to download a full size image from the item node.... I hope you are getting the idea, now. Anyway, now we have the vocabulary straight. I need a concatenation of existing modules, custom tailoring of modules, new module developments, and tutorialization that will teach me how to get a decent gallery website up and running (and how to maintain it). A good tutorial will guide me through the steps of altering a default Drupal site (feel free to use third-party tutorials), so that it will contain a nice gallery with a bulk upload feature, secure images and image proofs, and a nice site structure: website > gallery > album > item > image with proofs all between. I would like to be able to use different kind of calls to draw display images for links to galleries and albums, and I would also like to have a refined AND advanced search feature. Site navigation is very important... That is by no means an afterthought. This is something that should definitely be kept in mind, at the very least; however the first step is getting the gallery off the ground. Tutorial is essential. If a text-based tutorial is difficult to follow, a tutorials will only be deemed adequate if it utilizes video screencap software (i.e., camstudio), or step-by-step, line-by-line instruction to perform all tasks required for the creation of the gallery described above.