SmoothGallery + Lightbox Joomla Mambot Ajax - Hidden Links

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After the fuss over background-coloured links in templates, it is disappointing to see that a similar problem now exists with the mambot in the title of this thread.

On investigating the output of this mambot to attempt some customisation, the following markup was found -

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<div id="gallery_59_1" style="text-align: center; 
margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;width: 460px; height: 345px; z-index:5; background: #000000; 
text-indent: -2000px; border: 1px solid #000;">
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The effect of 'text-indent: -2000px;' is to place all of this content off the left edge of the visible page, and while this might be necessary to make the slideshow work (or not - that isn't the issue), I resent the hiding of links there as well.

I have no problem with giving credit where it's due, but Google is unlikely to look favourably on this kind of practice (Google's Webmaster Guidlines - "Avoid hidden text or hidden links.").