Thank you, allvip, ron4mac, and André for your assistance!
I had no control over the parens being at the beginning of the Album name - from screenshot in post #9 it is apparent that Coppermine displays the category name ahead of album names in the drop...
I had no control over the parens being at the beginning of the Album name - from screenshot in post #9 it is apparent that Coppermine displays the category name ahead of album names in the drop...