Webmail-like select form assistance

Hi all,

Does anyone know a way to effectively create a multi-node select form that can be used to process all selected records. The idea is to create a form similar to many webmail interfaces that will allow a user to select nodes via a check box and choose a process to run on the selected items. (delete, add to cart, move to a taxonomy, or whatever)? I would like to keep within the drupal api specs. However, I can't seem to find a way of creating such a thing. It seems like a pretty basic way of interacting with data on the web so I am guessing that I'm just missing the obvious.

If there is a preexisting module that can work with views or something similar, it would be preferred over writing custom coded forms every time I need such a thing. But if there is no production ready module to do such a thing, I will settle for some code examples and/or tutorial links ;-)

Take care,
~Gray~