When I looked at your sample album with my iPad, I could not use swipes
The sample albums are rather old, indeed. I should update them ...
Next I enlarged the size of some panorama images with user variable maxImageWidth=30000 for some panoramic images, but that gives a crash:
This does not surprise me. The layout depends heavily on user interface variables and calculations done in init.bsh before the actual album generation takes place. Manually feeding unexpected values in between can produce unpredictable results.