Hi Ellen….you can still do the tutorial for it, but just skip the added functionality of the spotlight and lightbox. So an example from my demo gallery, the first list
will look like this:
But if I didn’t want the added features and not to have it linked, then the code would look like this:

This method is a bit more flexible I think than plugins, so you should be fine. So if you want the 2 column x 8 row layout, change the span3 (as you see in my sample) to span6 to give you the two columns.