select specific option with JS

I have a page that has a PhP loop to produce a roster in table format, with a form above it to act as a filter. The roster contents are produced from a MySQL database.

I am trying to write a JavaScript that will pull the last entered values, and automatically fill in the form elements with them after a form submit and page reload. I have been mostly successful; however I am having particular trouble with the select menus.

Two of my select menus contains numbers, so a scripting like this:
(Irrelevant code removed)

$minlev = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['minlev']);
 
echo "window.onload=function() {
document.getElementById('minlev').options['" . $minlev . "'].selected = true;
}";

Is not viable, as my array of numbers is not equally incremental or consecutive, and it would try and select the, say, 10th value, rather than the value 10.

So, my question is this: is it possible to call an array value in <select> format by name rather than by order of appearance, and if so, (how) is it possible to do so with a purely numerical name?

Cheers,

Readie

[edit]

To clarify my question, where I say "name" I am referring to what is between the quotations in

<option value="">

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Untitled</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function() {
if (document.getElementById('clear-frm')) {
document.getElementById('clear-frm').innerHTML =
'<input type="button" id="clear-form" value="Clear Form">';
document.getElementById('clear-form').onclick = function() { clearForm(this.form); }
}
if (document.getElementById('the-form')) {
document.getElementById('the-form').onsubmit= function() { return chkForm(this); };
}
}; // End window.onload, not a typo
function chkForm (form) { alert('validation and submit here.'); return false; }
function clearForm(form) {
var msg = 'This will clear ALL fields in this form.\n' +
'To return to the current values, use\n' +
'the reset button. Continue?';
var okToClear = confirm(msg);
if (okToClear == true) {
for (i=0;i<form.elements.length;i++) {
var element = eval('form.elements[' + i + ']');
if ((element.type == 'text') ¦¦ (element.type == 'textarea') ¦¦
(element.type == 'file')) { element.value = ''; }
else if (element.type == 'select-one') { element.selectedIndex = 0; }
else if (element.type == 'radio') {
var elementName = element.name;
var radio = eval ('form.' + elementName);
for (r=0;r<radio.length;r++) {
if (r == 0) { eval ('form.' + elementName + '[' + r + '].checked=true'); }
else { eval ('form.' + elementName + '[' + r + '].checked=false'); }
}
} // end if radio
} // end for elements loop
alert('Form cleared - Psst . . . now hit reset, check it out . . . ');
} // end ok to clear
} // end func
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Radio buttons are tricky. It's good to estalish a "policy"<br>
of normally having the first one default, and always checked if<br>
no values are present. The second is to always have an empty value as the<br>
first item in a select list.<br>
The following follows these policies.</p>
<form method="post" id="the-form" action="">
<p><label for="fname">First Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" value="Bill"></p>
<p><label for="fname">Last Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="lname" id="lname" value="CodeMonkey"></p>
<p><strong>Some Option:</strong>
<input type="radio" name="some_option" id="some_option_default" value="0">
<label for="some_option_default">Default</label>
<input type="radio" name="some_option" id="some_option_1" value="1" checked>
<label for="some_option_1">First</label>
<input type="radio" name="some_option" id="some_option_2" value="2">
<label for="some_option_2">Second</label>
</p>
<p><label for="select-me">Select Value:</label>
<select name="select-me" id="selecte-me">
<option value="">Select</option>
<option value="1">Option 1</option>
<option value="2" selected>Option 2</option>
<option value="3">Option 3</option>
</select>
</p>
<p style="white-space:nowrap">
<input type="submit" value="Submit Form">
<input type="reset" value="Reset Form">

<span id="clear-frm"></span>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>