General Support: How to list collections on every page

I have been using Plogger for a year now and have had a very positive experience overall.

I'm creating a new template for my site and I want to list links to the collections on every page. I placed the following code in the footer template. It works great on the index page, but on the collection and album pages it says "No collections yet." I know this is because I'm not on the collections page, but is there a workaround? Thanks!

<input type="hidden" name="dl_type" value="collections" />
<?php if (plogger_has_collections()) : ?>
<?php while(plogger_has_collections()) : ?>
<?php plogger_load_collection();
// set variables for the collection
$desc = plogger_get_collection_description();
$num_albums = plogger_collection_album_count(); ?>
<div class="collection">
<a href="<?php echo plogger_get_collection_url(); ?>">
<?php // generate XHTML with thumbnail and link to album view ?>
<h2><?php echo plogger_get_collection_name(); ?></h2></a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
<p> No collections yet
</p>
<?php endif; ?>