quicktab on Content Profile page

Here is my situation:
I am using the Content Profile module to create a node profie for each user. For example I have node id#5 associated with my user id#2

Obviously to view a my user #2''s profile page, I have to navigate to http://www.mysite.com/node/5

I also use Panels to customize the profile page. In it I would like to place a Quick Tabs block that will have two tabs: one showing the current user's blog (for example) and one the shows the curent user's pictures. I have views prepared for both. Each of these views takes the "user id" as an argument.

With the current release of QT I can create a block with two tabs, select the appropriate view for each of them and pass %1 to the view. The problem is that when displaying a profile page thet %1 is a node id and not a user id! The ids of a user and his profile are generally not equal. So I need somehow to:
1) Get the node id from the path (%1)
2) Get the user id that is associated with that node
3) Pass THAT id down to the QT views

Do you have any ideas how this can be done?

I tried using a "panel pane" view - in the view definition you have the option to add a "panel pane" display for a view (in the same select box, where you add a block display). That display has an option to get its arguments from the panel context. And in the panel context I can easily define a relationship between a user and a node profile. The problem again is that this panel context is not available inside a QT. This leads me to a question: in the QT definition page, when you select a view, ALL view displays become available in the drop-down select box - including the panel panes. However those do not behave correctly since the panel context in passed through to them. Are only block displays working within a QT?