Place a hidden field in your script relating to the item in the record set that you are calling, and use something like this:

<a href="viewprod.php?ID=<?php echo $rs['ID'];...

The script I am posting is a fairly advanced search page using left joins on tables, but I think you can grasp what the script is doing. This search allows for 3 different types of search methods...

Not sure if your porblem is solved yet, but here is something I use all the time for drop downs.
First get your connection string going. preferably using an include.
then use the following code,...

I have built a dynamic select box for something like this.
Here I populate the select options with information from a table:
(I also created the "sticky" to hold the users input upon error checking...

try placing this at the top of your page:
<? ob_start(); ?>

then at the bottom of the page place this line of code:

<? ob_flush(); ?>