Accessing imagechace preset for Image nodes in Views field formatter

I'm fairly new to Drupal, so please excuse & correct my terminology...

• First off, Imagecache is a "must-have" for my site - what a terrific idea, thank-you.
• Second, after much reading, and trials, I prefer to use the Image module over CCK & Imagefield
• Third, I have some custom Views that draw random images based on their tags, and display them in a block.

Here's my problem:

1. I'd like my users to be able to upload images and tag them, so they can appear in one of my custom views.
2. These images will vary in both resolution (size) and dimension (since I can't know what my users will upload)
3. I'm hoping Imagecache will allow me to dynamically resize each image as it is displayed in the block, based on a preset created to scale the image (maintaining aspect ratio) to fit within the fixed block dimensions.
4. However, in the Views... Fields selector, the Imagecache presets that I have defined don't show up.

I suspect this may be how it is designed - ?? only the static Thumbnail, Preview, Original, ... sizes show up for Image Nodes, but the dynamic Imagecache presets show up for an ImageField ??

Here are my questions:

1. Is there currently a way to apply the Imagecache preset sizes to an Image node in a custom View? If so, how?
2. If not, is it worth putting in a feature request for this? Is there any reason why Imagecache is not fully integrated with the Image module?
   (In fact, I am quite confused about the advantages of building a CCK node type with ONLY an image field in it - that is basically what the Image Node already provides! I totally get CCK, and the power of being able to add an imagefield to any type of node, but it seems like many folks are just re-inventing the Image Node wheel with it - or am I missing something?)

   Many thanks for bearing with me and again, for a great module.
   ...Joseph