Relocate Views' pager
Copying this code snippet into your page.tpl.php won't help because the $page variable will not be defined for this template. You can only move it freely inside the views-view.tpl.php template.

You can add a similar $pager variable to your page template using your theme or module's implementation of hook_preprocess_page(). In this implementation, you can retrieve the current page's view (if any) using views_get_current_view(). See the template_preprocess_views_view() function in Views' include/theme.inc for how to generate the pager from a view object. In Views 3.x the pager is build by the query plugin.