nodereference on primary node

I have the same problem as http://drupal.org/node/773414. The comment http://drupal.org/node/773414#comment-3477046 was helpful and indicated a solution is possible but I have not been able to make it work.

Essentially I have a content type called book. I also have a content type called 'collection' that has a nodereference field pointing to book that allows for multiple values.

The goal is to produce a view (collections) of all the collections with a views_attach view attached showing the first five books in the collection. The 'Collections' view is a node style view using the teaser build. I added a node content view to attach to the collections view, but I just can't get it to show up. Detailed steps would be appreciated, or another way of doing it.

I understand that the cck display settings page could be used here, but you really only have the option of 'title' or 'title linked to node'. I want more flexibility than that. It would be great if the cck formatters allowed you to specify a view to use for the display.