Searching, the way you mentioned would be fine, Im not too bothered about individual image hits, titles of gallerys and sub gallerys would be fine.

I forgot to mention, I love tagging, would be great to tag static pages and galleries images - will the new media manager do this (and set default tag ...

Hi

After a long search Serendipity is top of my shortlist for my personal website.

Main features:
Blog with categories (nestable).
Image Gallery with sub galleries (I dont need fancy features, just ability to organise them properly)
and basic static pages.

Without have to resort to code hacking ...