Fitting Imagefield Gallery Inside a Block

Hey,

Great module by the way. Sorry if there's a more obvious way of going about what I'm asking but I can't for the life of me figure out how to display imagefield gallery inside a block (sort of like cck-image block). I tried using the following php snippet:

<?php
print $node->field_image['view']
?>

I also tried variations of what was suggested from this post: http://drupal.org/node/316053, but alas, to no avail. I'm actually looking to display all images but the first one so that I can display the gallery in a block in a sidebar just next to the first imagefield image which I've set to display above the content near the top of the page. Attached is an mockup demonstrating how I want to display the images.

I'm still not proficient with php so any help would be much appreciated.