Seeing the same issue. Makes sense that the field is being checked to ensure it contains a valid email address, using the [your-recipient] mail tag still works but displays the error as described. Counter intuitive. Hope that this is addressed in the next update maybe?
Pretty average really, I couldn’t believe it could be that bad, I search for a fair while before I was convinced… Ended up hand coding a lighbox gallery that uses the scripts installed by one of the many available lightbox plugins. The plugin includes information on how to do this, as they obviously realise the standard gallery “feature” is pretty garbage – unless used in the simplest application. Don’t change your mind or think in an efficient manner, “gallery” is not your friend.