I decided to create a custom navbar and remove everything but the breadcrumb and logininfo from it. I followed the same basic directions in the
vb.org hack to add a custom navbar (
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=616800) and then I just replaced the standard $navbar in all my gallery display pages to $navbar_lite
*edit to say this solution stopped working pretty quicky, it didn't display new posts, etc. correctly