I tried unsuccessfully to upgrade to kernel 2.5.44 this morning. The NVidia kernel patch I mentioned last night worked great, but now the kernel doesn't properly see my mouse (a PS/2 MS Intellimouse Explorer). I've scoured the LKML, and as far as I can tell it should be working. Oh well; I'll give it another shot sometime in the next few days.
I finally got around to writing some gallery code. It's not finished yet, but you can see what I've got so far right here.
John Bernard has been packaging FAM-Ruby and Imlib2-Ruby for a few months now. They're not in Debian (yet), but you can download the packages from his download page.