Gallery question

[Michael Bovee]

Hi,
A couple months back I was looking into Gallery for organizing pics on 
my webpage here at UVM.  (I'm here not as a Linux hacker, just a MacOSX 
guy who's trying to learn a few things...)

I hit a roadblock when I read that Gallery says something about PHP has 
to be configured with 'safe mode' turned OFF, something like that, 
sorry I dont remember the details at the moment. I found out that here 
at UVM the setting in question was turned ON, and I dont know of a way 
to get around this. Probably easy, I just dont have anyone else to ask. 
Can I still set up gallery to work in this environment where I dont 
have control over how php is configured?

Thanks,
--Michael