Ok, here's my next issue:

I need a marker to indicate that you have already viewed a record.
Esentially the way my db works is that when you view a record it writes to a db a userid and the recordid.
So what I would like to add is a check on that db prior to listing records.

if userid=(current user) and recordid=(a record to be displayed) then display viewed image otherwise display unviewed image.

Thanks in advance!
Adam