Views Links and Filters

I have a fresh install of Drupal7 which has Views generated blocks of taxonomy terms for various vocabularies related to different content types. What I want to do is link the terms to a Views generated page with a list of nodes for the term.

So far this is pretty straight forward; where I'm getting stuck is that I want to have exposed filters for the nodes displayed. The first filter needs to be for the terms related to the node type. If I can get this sorted I should have no trouble with the additional fields.

My thinking was to rewrite the term links in each block to include the vocabulary name ie; "vocabulary"/term/%, so that it would link to the Views page and pass the "tid". However when rewriting the link the replacement pattern [tid] does not work, the only one that I can find that works is [name] which does not pass the "tid".

It would also be great if the exposed filter could be set to the term for the "tid" passed to the Views page, but not essential.

Any advice would be much appreciated.