I am also looking to do some thing similar as part of a gift search.

I would like to be able to get the customer to enter/select from a number of criteria and then offer them a list of products:

eg occassion, gender, age, price range.

Has any one got this as a mod? How do you create the different options. i.e. can I create new fields easily in the database for each category/selection box and then populate the fields in the database to help filter the products. Or do I use metatags and get the existing seach to just read these.

Help and advice much appreciated?

Thanks

MG