lightbox2-dev views

I am trying to make up my mind if and how to use lightbox2. My use case: I want lightbox2 to display a photo (image node) and some metadata (mostly stored in CCK fields, such photographer, dateCreated).

• In 6.x-dev from 2009-Nov-23 there is a little bug related to a change in views api, see: http://drupal.org/node/575926 seems to have a working patch.
• There seems to be a possible collision of triggers as described in http://drupal.org/node/396592. When "automatic node image handling" and the views trigger refer to the same thing, an image, for example, the former take precedence. This issue refers not to the lightbox views trigger, but the problem is the same.
• layout of the lightbox created by the view: Currently you can specify the layout in a single views field "popup". As far as I understand you can post your views fields there and some html. The result is usually not themed, un-cool looking lightboxes, as described in http://drupal.org/node/588640 comment #7 for example. I ran into the same problem. I believe this is not the way to go, I think the easiest way would be to use a page-node-lightbox2.tpl.php for each views, otherwise I never get the theming right. I guess I will do a separate post since this problem is almost invisible right in the queue now although it has been reported.
• There is not much documentation on how to use the feature currently implemented. The best so far seems to be in http://drupal.org/node/588640 comment #7.
• This seems to be the mother of all lightbox2-views issues: http://drupal.org/node/474454.

I hope this is of any help to anyone.

PS: I don't know what category to give this issue.