This is a reprint of an article I found here:
http://tedserbinski.com/tags/drupal/creating-alpha-pager-with-views-2-and-drupal-6
This is article that saved me tons of hours while I was chasing my tail trying to find an easy way to do this, reprinted so I can remember it later:
From reading all of the docs and quietly watching development commits, I knew Views 2 was [...]

Creating an Alpha Pager with Views 2 and Drupal 6

Drupal node templates based on node id
Code Snippet to allow you to override and specify node templates based on node id.
Put the code in your template.php file
/**
* Override or insert variables into the node templates.
*
* @param $vars
* An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
* @param $hook
* The name of the template being rendered (“node” [...]