How to start views at %nid position (from path)?
In jQuery Cycle there is an option called startingSlide. By default this is set to 0, like this: startingSlide: 0

If I remember correctly there is a tab/textarea for advanced settings where you can add options to jQuery Cycle from within the Views UI. I think you can add "startingSlide: 5" for example there.

You will need to find out which is the starting slide (convert the %nid to which row in the view it is) and add it as a HTML element. When that is in place we can fetch it with jQuery and add it as a jQuery Cycle option. I'm not sure which is the best way but I think you could do something like:

    function MYMODULE_views_pre_render(&amp;$view) {
      if($view-&gt;name == "MYVIEW") {
        $view-&gt;attachment_after = $startingslide;
      }
    }


You will have to add more code to find out $startingslide there of course. Look inside $view->result and find out which of the rows that is the argument, that will be your $startingslide. Use dpm() on the view to search through the object.

Hope this will help you. Let me know what you ended up doing :)