Credits for inspiration, thought process, and code snipets go to:

IImage Browser for Wordpress 1.2 and higher

Version 1.4.1
Copyright (C) 2004 Martin Chlupac
released under the LGPL.
which was based on:
Image Browser Plugin for Wordpress 1.2
Copyright (C) 2004 Florian Jung

WPG2 - WordPress Gallery2 Plugin

by Ozgreg and the rest of the WPG2 Development Team

WPG2 plugin for TinyMCE

by Cristian Pavoni

Edit Button Template

by Owen Winkler

insertatcursor Javascript function

by Alex King

Heavy lifting for Joomla mosCE and JCE integration

by Ron Field

Assistance with WPG2 update

Jess Planck

FCKEditor]] Integration

by Steve Lineberry

Visual and code inspiration for the Gallery selector in 2.2 and the multi-image selection to be added in 3.0

Christian Bartels' WP-Gallery-Remote plugin for Wordpress

dtree

by Geir Landrö

LightBox2

by Lokesh Dhakar and the LightBox Team

php-gettext

by Danilo Segan and Nico Kaiser Language Translations

Suggestions and beta testing by the WPG2 community

A sincere "Thanks!" to all,
Kirk Steffensen