CCK, Views, Asset, and Imagecache Integration using Views Carousel

I have multiple nodes with assets in the body field. Each node body has multiple assets (all jpg images). I've used Imagecache to resize the images and Views Carousel to make a nice revolving box of images. That said, I'm having a couple problems:

1. I only want 1 asset per node (ignoring any additional) to display in the carousel. The point is just to provide a grapical link to the node, not to be an image gallery.

2. I'd like to use CCK for the assets instead of pasting the asset code into the body field, but I can only get CCK to place the assets above or below the body. I want the images inline with the text wrapping around them (align=right). I'm sure there's an easy answer to this, but I can't think what it would be.

Help greatly appreciated.