Sort view before print

Hello

Got as far as running a query grabbing a bunch of nids and passing them to a view, thought I was doing well! However you guessed it, the sort order is wrong, here's my pseudo code:

//query to grab the nids

if (!empty($nodeids)) {
$view='taxo_listing';
foreach ($nodeids as $nid){
print views_embed_view($view, block_1, $nid);
}

What I need to do is pre-build the view then run views_query_alter to sort the view before printing out the view.

Been looking at http://views.doc.logrus.com/ for a while now, but it's all a bit confusing, can anyone offer any clues as how to go about this? I know what I want to do but unsure how to go about it, sound familiar guys?

Thanks in advance.