Steve,
I know what you mean. Personally, I now use my BigOvenPrint Tool for Word to do most of my printing, and it cannot do photo printing because the ctrl-t export format doesn't support photos. I'm hoping for an XML output format in the future...
But, from within BigOven, I have been known to customize recipe themes, even though Lakefront does not support this kind of workaround. Keeping a special "no photos" version of a favorite recipe theme is the easiest workaround I can think of. Come on over to the Printing Recipes and Cookbooks to discuss it.