I logged in using test/test and it gave an incorrect login. not sure what happened there.

As to the X vs 1, X was whatever category ID you're trying to not display. If the Member Albums is indeed category 1 (as it should and sounds like it was) then the code I gave you should work. However, that was for the menus block.

What you want is for the main photo pages, I'm guessing based on looking at your info. For that, you'll need to edit the xcgal_header.html template. Probably easiest to just remove the link(s) near the bottom of that template. That, or add the xoops_isadmin to the if statement.