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yeah I had the same problem.. fixed it by making sure
<?php wp_footer();?>
is called in the theme files (before body close tag)
and also
<?php wp_enqueue_script(“thickbox”);?>
in the header

Touching the core files is the last thing I would want to do..
It seems as I dug deeper, plugin/theme functions are the way to go, although I’ve yet to figure out how to create static pages from there.

I like EMG’s first suggestion and I guess that should suffice, as long as I provide instructions to use that template and create the pictures page after theme activation.
But still, it’d be good to have it done automatically :/

Anyway thank you all for the suggestions!