The "fix" I'm providing will not prevent access to that page nor the creation of albums. All it will do is prevent the ability to see the links to that page.

Can you explain the process you use to edit your templates? Are you using a custom set of templates? Are you editing a custom one, the default or the file in the module directory? If you aren't using a custom set and you are editing the file in the module templates directory, then you have to update the module before the default set is updated. My recommendation is to use the AltSys module and create a custom set of templates, set those active in your system preferences and then edit those because every time you update a module the default set is overwritten with the file set.

I've made it work for me at this point, but I can't see all of your setup, but assuming that the test user is indeed ONLY a registered user, then I would expect to not see the links but only if the template is correct.