But am I the only one that can't seem to find either;

A) An article module that has thumbnails that works and links to a larger image?

or

B) An article module that will integrate with a Album module that supports thumbnails?

With all these being easy to use by multiple end users? I have a club site and a business site I am struggling to get going with articles because I haven't found the right combo yet.

Signed

At wits end in Kalamazoo

Have you taken a look at eXtGallery 0.1.5 at http://www.zoullou.net/. With or without the hook hack, it will enable you to post images from that gallery in other parts of your site. I'm still under construction, but it has worked fine with the standard news module and smartsection module, and the hook hack is a nice bonus feature.

I forgot to mention I am using 2.2.4.

Maybe I stand to be corrected, but it doesn't work in 2.2.x yet.