How Would I Go About Creating Developing this Monster?!

I'm looking for suggestions and tips on how to create a dynamic site that incorporates images that change based on a visitors path through an established decision tree. I explain more below but am looking for suggestions regarding programs, code, and scripts that may help minimize the complexities involved with the development of this site.

I am looking to expand a music equipment site so that it can sell drum kits online. I would like to guide the visitor through a decision tree that helps them choose the best drum set for their needs.

I would like this site to display images of drum sets that are related to their responses to the decision tree questions. I believe this would require tagging images in some way so that they would be prompted and displayed based on the visitors resonses.

The visitor would start by choosing their skill level. Based on this response, a few images of different drum sets pre-associated with that specific skill level would appear.

The visitor would then choose a specific snare/high hat setup. If they chose right handed then the snare/high hat setup in the image would change in accordance with their answer.

The visitor would then choose how many symbols they wanted, how many toms they wanted, chose single or double bass pedals, etc. The main thing I am looking for is for the image of the drum set, price of the drum set, and possibly even a visible list of all the individual pieces of the kit to change based on their responses as they are guided through the decision tree. It would be ideal for these 3 changes to be made after every response from the visitor.

At the very end the visitor would be able to choose a material and color for the kit and then print out a "spec sheet" outlining the features of the kit. This print out would function as a sort of order slip.

Any insight into this idea is VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!! I welcome all ideas and look forward to people's input!!

Thanks in advance!!!

ohhh like what they have at dell?

javascript would be a good bet, however you could do it using purly sever side languages (however the pages would have to load evey time, not fun)

possibility of using flash, but it would be useless lol. go with javascript. but what your wanting isnt exactly, easy

Now I will most likely be presenting the final product to the owner who will then up the package. Would you recommend creating the database using mysql or excel? What would be the best option for this. Would something like Coldfusion have such capabilities already built into the Coldfusion software?

Thanks again for all your help and input!

sql definatly! problem with using excel and access is they can just be downloaded...