It's weird, but I can tell as soon as I look at a page with skyscraper banners if the page was built around them or if they just fit empty space on the page. Especially if there's one stuck right in the middle of the page - it's really hard to work around that, especially with 3 gallery links. It just doesn't seem right to me.
What you could try is 2 - 1 on each side with the gallery links/thumbs in between.
But it wasn't a slap at your design skills
