WPPA and PHP Expert Help

The Start
I wanted to have a page where members could upload their photos and see only the photos they uploaded.
So, I created a shortcode inserted into my child themes functions.php file
Parts between ** removed for security

function current_user_gallery_sc() {
        if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
                global $wpdb;
		global $current_user;
		get_currentuserinfo();
                $ifuser = $current_user->user_login;
                $albumid = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT id FROM *NAME OF DB* WHERE owner = \"$ifuser\"");
                echo wppa_albums($albumid);

//For debugging, making sure variables are getting correct values
echo $albumid;
echo $ifuser;
        }
}
add_shortcode('current_user_gallery', 'current_user_gallery_sc');

it worked!

I broke it
The auto generated name setting in the plugin was set to ID and I wanted it set to Display Name. So I changed it in the settings and then. I made the mistake of deleting the DB entries for the albums
It hasn’t worked since.

What I have done to try and fix it
I de-activated the plugin then deleted the plugin and then made sure all DB entries where gone as well as any remaining files in the the directories.
Then re-installed the plugin. Didn’t work.

Did the ultimate fix, I thought
I wiped my entire wordpress installation deleted the whole DB everything.
Started from scratch.

The wppa plugin has a debug feature and this is what it shows

[WPPA+ dbg msg: Entering wppa_albums]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Lang=en, Locale=en_US, Ajax=]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: $wppa_session = a:6:{s:4:"page";i:13;s:4:"ajax";s:1:"0";s:2:"id";s:2:"10";s:11:"search_root";s:1:"2";s:7:"rootbox";s:1:"0";s:16:"use_searchstring";s:0:"";}]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Usr_upl entered]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Potential search root = 2]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Plugin load time :0.065s.]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Init runtime time :0.001s.]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Num queries before wppa :47]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: alb=2, albenum=]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: alb=2, albenum=, l_a=, l_a_p=0]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: pid=6, type=page, alb=2, sep=, slide=, t_c=0, ph=0]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: get_albums entered: 1 Start_album=2, Cover=0]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: get_thumbs entered: 1 Start_album=2, Cover=0]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Get thumbs took 0.00046896934509277 seconds, found: 1 items.]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Time elapsed occ 1:0.008s. Tot:0.008s.]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Number of queries occ 1:8]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Cumulative query stats: Q=query, G=cache
Q-A=>1, Q-PH2=>1, Q-bc1=>1, Q-bc2=>1, Q-bc4=>1, Q-meta2=>1, Q11b=>1, Q201=>1, Q59=>1,
G-A1=>3,
Total queries attempted: 12, Cash hits: 3, equals 25.00%, misses: 9. 2nd level cache entries: albums: 1, photos: 1 NQ=55]

The album id is 2 and has one phot uploaded to it with the id of 1