Using display suite to position CCK pager

The CCK pager seems to be firmly attached to the field output it is splitting in pages. One of the best features Drupal 7 has over D6 is the ability to easily change the appearance of nodes by simply repositioning fields. It would be fantastic to be able to do so with the CCK pager as well.

what I'm aiming for (creating a gallery):

- title
- photos
- body (text)
- pager

however, because the pager seems to be part of the photos-field the best I can do is:

- title
- photos
- pager
- body (text)

The Display Suite module offers a relatively easy way of tackling this but I have been unable to get this to work. Has anyone here been successful in using DS for this purpose and if so... how? :)