I'm not sure why you had problems with 4.4, but I'd guess that it's a missing config item. (You'd have to update all config items touched in 4.3 and 4.4 - per_member_upload, authentication_type and protect_album, for example.) Hopefully that's it, I've upgraded several sites already, and "it just worked."
As for the "automatic config via script" option, I'm not sure what you mean... Is it "have the script guess where album.cfg is?" If so, that's already done. (Try it - put album.cfg in the same dir as album.pl and it'll find it automagically...)
If the request is to merge existing config settings with the new version's config, I haven't tackled that one... It's a biggie...
Outback2K1, I'm not sure what you're talking about! It looks like you want the album script to configure your cgi-bin directory or something... Can you clarify?
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