New here and needing some help/advice about Drop down lists.

New here and needing some help/advice about Drop down lists.

I have a search query written in ColdFusion. When a user types in my form, ie GE, then some 500 or so records are returned. I would like several dropdown lists on the results page to be populated by the initial query, but populated with other criteria based on a record. For example, again a user types GE which returns 500 records that include Brand Name(GE), Base Type, Glass Type, Average Hours, Wattage, Voltage, and Cost. If the user sees 500 GE bulbs, they could click the wattage drop down list and then select which wattage of GE bulb they were looking for. This is similar to the drop dwn lists Ebay uses I would think. I posted this in another forum on another site, but someone suggested jquery and this site. I know nothing about AJAX or jquery, so if anyone could get me started or point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance!