ASP Page Manipulated by Form Variable

I have an ASP page containing data from a recordset. I would
like help doing the following: When the user first opens the page,
they see all of the records. On the top of the page, there will be
a form containing a menu and a submit button. I would like it so
that the user can select an item from the menu and when they hit
submit, it simply uses the selection as the filter term.
I can get everything to work if I'm passing to a secondary
page, but then the problem arises again if the user wants to make
another selection without hitting the back button. If I'm stuck
with the 'back' solution, please let me know.
Thanks for your help!

Hi,
Thanks for replying. I have now resolved by creating a master page and passing the AwayUser URL variable through to the main form.
Regards

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