Adding lightbox to 3D gallery

Hey now -
I'm trying to figure out a way to modify a Flash gallery called 3D Sphere. It's all over the internet in various versions made with various software. However, there's no transition or phototime in 3D and once a thumb is clicked, it opens the pic in another window always with a white background. I've tried target="_self" and all the other vars to do this without success. If you have a dark site like mine, clicking on a thumbnail is quite a blinding shock.

Now I'm thinking lightbox may solve this problem where once the thumb is clicked, the same window can then darken and the large pic can be displayed right over the gallery all without another window opening.

I'm working with the Ultraslideshow Flash Gallery Maker demo from www.flash-gallery-maker.com which is controlled with an external XML file I've partially included below.

My questions are:
1) I've read about lightbox and several different old versions. Some don't work with IE8 believe it or not. I'm assuming the latest version will...or will it? And where is it?
2) How would I code lightbox into the XML page in my included code that controls the 3D Sphere gallery without popping another window?

Code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<flash_parameters copyright="anvsoftPFMTheme">
    <preferences>
        <global>
            <basic_property movieWidth="800" movieHeight="600" backgroundColor="0x000000" html_title="Gallery" anvsoftMenu="false" enableURL="true" />
            <music_property path="" stream="true" loop="true"/>
        </global>
        <thumbnail>
            <basic_property thumWidth="200" thumHeight="150" diameter="500" layerOfThum="4" thumNumOfLayer="6" rotationSpeed="1"/>
        </thumbnail>
    </preferences>
    <album>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0001.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0001.jpg" transition="54" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.ultraslideshow.com" title="Grand Canyon" width="800" height="600"/>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0002.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0002.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.ultraslideshow.com" title="Devils Tower" width="800" height="600"/>
(etc, etc)
 </album>
</flash_parameters>

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Thanks for any info