reference a field in CCK Drupal 6
I have no idea why the maintainers haven't fixed this glaring oversight, but after hours searching and testing I figured his out and want to share.

Total results for views with multiple displays and pager

Inline with the view, drop this in view header: 

&lt;?php
print $view-&gt;query-&gt;pager-&gt;total_items; 
?&gt;


Outside the view:

&lt;?php
$view = views_get_view('MY_VIEW_NAME');
$view-&gt;set_display('MY_DISPLAY'); // like 'block_1'  
$view-&gt;execute(); 
print $view-&gt;query-&gt;pager-&gt;total_items; 
?&gt;


That freakin' easy...