didn't you say you knew the access db stuff?
This is part of what I use in my news, take a look and adapt, don't forget to put your variables (the Dim stuff) and close the connections and recordsets after you use them.
And you should take a look in the DB tutorials in this site, there's where I learn this. It's more than worth the time you will spend.
<%
Set notiCon = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
atarCon = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("../private/profiles.mdb") <- this is the path from the root, add more ../ for each folder level your app is in, if not in the root.
notiCon.Open atarCon
%>
<%
Dim rsNews
Dim lngIDNews
lngIDNews = CLng(Request.QueryString("NewsID"))
Set rsNews = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
qtrSQL = "SELECT tblNotic.* FROM tblNotic WHERE tblNotic.News_ID = " & lngIDNews & ""
rsNews.Open qtrSQL, atarCon
%>