display list view on a subsite page

Our environment: Sharepoint 2010 but with the 2007 UI.  I have calendar at the top level with some views defined.  I need to be able to display one of the views on a page in a subsite.  How do I do this?  I can create a content query webpart at the top level and point to that list and the views and it works.  But, in a subsite when I add a content query webpart, it only allows me to specify the list from the top site, not the view.  So, I can still access the list in the subsite but it doesn't display the correct view.

I attempted to implement the following solution:

- add a content query webpart on a page at the top level and point it to our Calendar list and the correct view. 

- Export the webpart to the webpart gallery at the site collection level

- hopefully after that this webpart would be accessible at the subsite.

However, when I go to the webpart menu I don't see any "Export Webpart" menu.  How do I export that webpart to the webpart gallery? 

thanks,