Have separate gallery views for the gallery and image templates

In a typical situation I would like to have my gallery presented in pages, let's say 12 images per page. Users will browse through the pages and eventually they will click on an image. Then in the image node they will see the image itself and below that - a strip with a few image thumbnails for easy access to the adjacent images to the one being displayed.

The problem with the current implementation is that the same view is used to display both the gallery and the thumbnails below the CCK Image. I would suggest to add another option in the configuration page that will allow the admin to select a separate view that will show the thumbnail strip under the image on one line. It will be exactly the same view as the one for the gallery, the only difference will be that it will show (for example) 3-4 thumbnails per page and will probably not have a pager.
And why not add an option of not having the thumbnails displayed under the image at all?

That part I think should be fairly easy to implement. More interesting will be to synchronize the CCK image and the view that displays the thumbnails around the current image. Currently you see the big image above and below a page from the view that may not even show a thumbnail of the image above.

Have a look at the following example: http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/displayimage.php?album=random&...
... the main image is displayed above and below there is a portion of the gallery with a few (not all) images immediately surrounding the one being displayed. If you click on a thumbnails below, the selected image's thumbnail is again centered in the thumbnail strip. So the image above and the strip are synchronized.