Newbie question: View of another view output?

Hi there,

I'm sorry if this is a newbie question, but I've been racking my brain for days on how to go about setting this up.
I'm trying to build a custom image gallery with Lightbox and easy gallery creation in mind.

This is what I'm trying to do:

One "Galleries overview" page with specific galleries within it e.g. art gallery, digital gallery, car gallery.
The Galleries overview page will have one teaser image of the specific galleries with the gallery description next to it. Clicking on the gallery teaser image or gallery description will allow entry to the specific galleries themselves.

Inside the specific gallery (e.g car gallery), I'd like the same gallery description along the top and a grid view of the car photos in thumbnail form. Clicking on any of the images would activate Lightbox, allowing user to scroll through that gallery using Lightbox interface.

This is my ideal Gallery creation (user creates):
One content type called "Gallery". Gallery has the fields: title, body (gallery description), upload image, description next to image (i.e captions).

By simply creating a new content Gallery e.g named "Car Gallery", and filling out the above fields.. I want it to accomplish what I said above.

Here is my attempt and theory:

View 1 will be the "Gallery Overview" page where it has one thumbnail and description field. Thumbnail and description field links to View 2 output. View 1 has to be dynamic to allow multiple specific galleries to be added in the same fashion when creating content type "Gallery".

View 2 is the specific gallery. Out putting the photos in grid view in thumbnails, with custom output modification to activate Lightbox. There is also the gallery description at the top of the page.

Now I have built View 2 successfully with Lightbox and grid view of photo thumbnails but View 2 is using a node id filter of the content "Gallery" where I uploaded the photos. View 2 is also a page form where I specify a path. This is where my problem starts where the gallery is no longer dynamically created because of the node id filter and the page view (path) - which means I have to create a new view (cloned) for every gallery, changing the node id filter and creating a new gallery path.
I'm also stuck in where I can't seem to tie the specific Galleries to the Gallery overview page.

I'm sorry if I made this way more complicated than it ought to be. The reason why I didn't go with any other gallery module is because I like this Lightbox script and UI.

If you've taken time to read that whole shenanigan then I salute you and would be extremely gratified.

Regards,

Chris