Question: Repopulating form parameters

I'm hoping that this question will be more succinct. I am trying to repopulate a search form with a user's chosen paramters. I am running into a problem with "multiple select lists" First , this is the element when the form is first presented to the user: <select name="Ind[]" size="8" multiple="multiple" id="Ind[]" > <?php while($row = mysql_fetch_array($inds, YSQL_BOTH)) { echo '<option value="'.$row['CareerIDs'].'">'.$row['CareerCategories'].'</option>'; } ?> So the element's option are taken from a table. Now I am grabbing the array and can print out the chosen values correctly, either using an implode: if (count($Ind) > 0 AND is_array($Ind)) { $Ind = "'".implode("','", $Ind)."'"; } or a "for" loop: if (isset($Ind)) { $j = count($Ind); for($i=0; $i<$j; $i++) print_r($Ind[$i]); } What I can't do is getting the options that were chosen to be highlighted in the select list. i.e if there are 5 options for user to choose from: 1-Banking 2-Arts 3-I.T. 4-Accounting 5-Retail And user chooses 1-Banking and 5-Retail, when I reapply the query string I want those 2 to be highlighed in the options list. It is working fine for textfield. ?Ind%5B%5D=1&Ind%5B%5D=2&JTitle=&City=Bronx&Days=&Recs=15&Submit=Submit If I apply the above query string, Bronx will be populated in the City<textfield> Not so, with the Ind[] array. Anyone know what I am talking about ? Stuart