Galleries in albums?

I was wondering if you had any ideas on making it possible, if I were to have galleries nested inside of albums, to show a thumbnail from one of the galleries on the album teaser? I've created an "album" content type, and then added a node reference in the "gallery" content type to these albums. Then I cloned both gallery views to create similar "album" views, and switched the necessary elements from "gallery" to "album".

But now I'm trying to get a thumbnail from the galleries attached to an album. The problem is there's a second relationship to fetch an image, after 2 levels of node reference (the image referenced from a gallery, referenced by an album). I've tried every which way, of keeping two relationships for the view, both for album and gallery, and have one relate to the other, but it's not working. All I get is the "No photos have been added to this gallery" empty text.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for the fantastic module. I just discovered Eaton's video the other day, and it was a revelation. This module helped me deploy that in no time at all.

There have been a lot of attempts at gallery modules for Drupal. Some have some great features, but I'm of the opinion that one important aspect that needs to be solved is nested galleries. The Image module offers that, and now comes with a view, which is great. But it's not very customizable. Then it dawned on me that creating albums within which galleries could be nested would do the trick. And bypass the need to use taxonomy. Except for the thumbnail!

Thanks in advance for any help.