Hi Jackie, Have you checked out WebAssist tutorial on ecart product options that may give you more of an idea on what you want to accomplish?
product_options.php
With the ecommerce website I coded I got help with setting up product options in a different way using a combination of adding a column to the ecart object as well as storing all the product options in a single session array using delimiters to separate the content you wish to store and passing that onto the ecart object single column (rather then setting up many columns).
then to access this later (to show on a confirm page or order page etc you would explode the content of the session array: here is a reference if you want to learn more about that:
function.explode.php
function.implode.php
Chris
