i actually like them all except #1 which needs a new font and thats about it. I would try increasing the quality of traffic rather than focussing on the gallery design. Try submitting to different/better/more targetted tgp's instead of your usual.
as far as hotlinking goes, if you notice a problem just block ALL hotlinking at the root, use htaccess
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