Does anyone know of a good plugin and/or approach to displaying a thumbnail "grid", with excerpts, that functions as a portfolio of posts. (Each thumbnail/excerpt would link to the full post/portfolio item with more description and photos. I don't want a pop-up gallery, just asimple, clean layout that is automatically updated by adding new post/portfolio items. Any ideas? I've tried various plugins, but either they don't function properly (with Atahualpa?) or they are driven by gallery uploads, rather than by posted items. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Check with the "Default" theme to see if a plugin issue is caused by Atahualpa. I'll try to make all fairly popular plugins work.

Have you tried this http://www.cnet.ro/wordpress/thumbnailforexcerpts/ ?

What I need is a page that displays a gallery grid, with thumbnails and titles/excerpts, that link back to the source post for that thumbnail...(The goal is to crate a portfolio page driven by posts.) Any ideas? (The "Thumbnail for Excerpts" plugin doesn't produce the nice grid layout I'm looking for.)