Promoted forum posts override block weights

Yeah... the Drupal project is only for problems with Drupal core. For any contributed modules, you use their project to file issues.

Can you please try doing the same thing with a different block. There is nothing special about the Gallery Grid block code, so I do not understand why it (specifically) should be a problem.

Moving back to a Drupal issue as seems not to be related to the Gallery module.

Better title.

Does this occur for content types other than forum posts that are promoted to the front page?

Hm. Isn't this by design? The content region is inside the content. If you want something above the content, you'd put it in the header region, or create a new region. Or do I misunderstand?

This is by design, but we should add to this issue http://drupal.org/node/107794 to define a content top region (and rename t('content') to t('below content')) since this will probably pop up a lot. Normal content will always appear above any blocks in the content region.

You want something like this:

In template.php:

function yourthemename_regions() {
  return array(
       'left' => t('left sidebar'),
       'right' => t('right sidebar'),
       'content_top' => t('content top'), // Add this one only if you've already got this defined in template.php.
       'header' => t('header'),
       'footer' => t('footer')
  );
} 

In page.tpl.php ABOVE where it says something like print $content; put this:
print $content_top;

Then put any blocks you want in the content top region.

See http://drupal.org/node/29139.