CCK and Views to produce image select plus ID

Hello guys,

I am a Drupal newbie and have been experimenting with the system for about a week now.
Disappointed that I haven't come across this sooner!

I wondered if anyone could take the time to point me in the right direction as to be frank I have absolutely no idea how to approach this one.
I have messed around with CCK and Views and have compiled some nice input forms and pages.

I am looking to create something like this:
A directory of rank images on the server

Input form would allow the content creator to select an image from a drop down list.
Each image would be grouped via an ID field which I want to remain constant so I can make this the sortable field in views.

Ie. Rank 1 would have an ID of 1 and load image1.jpg
Rank 2 would have an ID of 2 and load image2.jpg

There will be multiple ranks which will have the same ID.
ie.

User 1 - Rank 1 - image ID 1 - Image1.jpg
User 2 - Rank 1 - image ID 1 - image1.jpg (possible to apply same image which would house the same image ID).

I hope I've managed to outline what I am trying to achieve.

As previously mentioned I would be eternally grateful if anyone could share some words of advice on how to do this.