Creating temporary table using a template table dynamically

I'm having an application for users to extract data from sql 2K. Problem is that I need to split the huge amount of data into few pages on the application screen.

Since my order by clause could be dynamic, which is a big problem, the solution I can think of is to populate a temporary table ( within a stored proc ) and assign a column within the temporary table with a running number.

This stored proc would accept among them, an argument, which is the table name of a base table.

However, I would like to create this stored proc in such a way that I could create a temporary table based on given based table name, complete with the field sizes and types. On top of that, would like to add a new column to this temp table to store a running number key.

Opinions appreciated. :)Refer to this linkSQL Performance (http://www.sql-server-performance.com/rd_temp_tables.asp) for information.