there are no solutions other than what has been posted in any of the exif threads. You must have a compiled working jhead install on the server to extract exif. That is my answer from a support perspective of the actual software.
You could possibly try changing these lines in image-inc.php
Code:
Content visible to verified customers only.
to maybe this
Code:
Content visible to verified customers only.
We do not use the exif function in PHP as it has always been a security risk and very buggy. Now you can try this above and it should work as long as your php supports exif but there is no support given here on this.
I never liked the exif function of php either its very dirty not clean like jhead. You can see here I made this slight change and it works although as stated I dont think its as clean as jhead is
http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/show...php/photo/1519