Wordpress Image Chooser not showing all folders.

I both Wordpress and Gallery2. I basically use them each as standalone sites and use wpg2 to provide an easy way to insert pictures from my gallery into my blog. I've run into a bit of difficulty, however.

I have a hidden folder in the root of my main gallery that I can only see when I'm logged in as admin. When I use the image picker button from wpg2 in my wordpress site, however, I cannot see that folder as an choice in the tree. I have my administrator account in wordpress set up as a gallery2 user. (Actually the administrator is the only user in both systems.)

I really need to be able to pick items from this hidden folder. Does anyone have any ideas why I'm not given this as a choice. Thanks.

Hi ozgreg...Thanks for your willingness to help. I may have accidentally stumbled upon the answer, but I'll post what I did just in case it might help someone else or if someone has any other comments.

I was using my Wordpress administrator account which is also an administrator on gallery2 and therefore should have been able to see all of the folders. That was why I was confused. However, since both my wordpress and gallery2 sites were stand alone, I was never actually going to the gallery2 site by way of wordpress (except through the image selector) and so the credentials were evidently not being established. I discovered that if I clicked on the "View Site" on the WPG2 tab in Wordpress, I then had the necessary credentials to see all the folders through the image selector.

Now, if someone knows a way that I can bypass this step of having to visit my gallery site through Wordpress before I write anything in my blog, I'd be very grateful. It seems an unnecessary step.