Does not display view_field item count when node is displayed as a row in a table view

Hi there!
Nice module - exactly what I needed - many thanks for your work.

I am not sure whether this should be a support request or a bug report:

I embed a view directly into a node by doing this:

  $view = views_get_view('MyView');
  if ($view) {
    $view->url = $_GET['q'];
    print views_build_view('embed', $view, array('MyArg'), FALSE, NULL);
  }

The point is that this view selects CCK nodes that contain a field of type view_field.
Now, my view contains a display field that refers to the nodes' view_field and has the format 'count', so I expect a table along the lines:

                       NUMBER OF NODES SELECTED BY THE
 NODE ID        VIEW EMBEDDED INTO THE NODE WITH
                       THE ID FOUND IN LEFT COLUMN
     x                                   a
     y                                   b
     z                                   c

But the right column is always empty.
This happens when the view is set to display as a table or as a list, but when it is displayed as a teaser list or as full nodes everything is working fine.

I did a little debugging - hopefully this will help:

The function viewfield_field_formatter should be called to properly print the number of items selected by the view_fields, but it is never called. This is because the Views API constructs complete nodes for teaser or full display, but it does not for table or list display. Instead, it uses functions like views_theme_field (in views.module) to construct queries on the basis of variable names. Since the number of items matching a view is not stored in the DB, but is a result of a query, something must be going wrong here.

I assume that to fix the problem one must override one or more of the views_theme... hooks. But I am not a Drupal expert, so I hope that the developers of this great module can find the solution better than I can and that they can integrate it into the module.

In the meantime I will try to live without the item counts in tables.

Cheers!