[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Editing NGG view/gallery.php , changes don't take effect.

Hi all. I love NGG and I’m using it for my online store. As such, I’m trying to make the gallery thumbnails into clickable links to their respective product pages.

I’m following Kim Woodbridge’s excellent tutorial on doing this with NGG Custom Fields.

Basically,
-Add a custom field called Link and fill it out for each gallery pic
-Turn off the js thumbnail effects,
-Replace an instance of $image->imageURL with $image->ngg_custom_fields[“Link”] in view/gallery.php using the plugin editor

But I can’t seem to get the changes to take effect. My changes are saved in the editor, but it seems that the file is not being reloaded. I’m a wordpress noob and just trying to figure out how to troubleshoot this.

I’ve tried deactivating and reactivating the plugins in many combinations. I’ve thoroughly read the code I changed to make sure it’s not a simple syntax error (also, I did have it working last night before I undid the changes and turned on js effects).

My hunch is it has to do with editing plugins in general, not NGG, but I tagged NGG anyway just in case. Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks!