what is wrong with these dynamic mysql selects that they do not return any results?

hi there.
i have a form that upon selecting attributes from dropdowns, requests allowed attributes for the next dropdown. thus i have a table of attributes, with multiple parent id's and a full ancestral tree in a string representation of a two-dimentional array (see attached csv with the first 3 levels of attributes). the first level of attributes (Make) only has 0 as a parent id, thus to load them on loading the form before selections are made. This works. It loads the attributes that have the selected attribute as a parent. thus the first and second tiers load:

SELECT * FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE bigint_AttributeServiceID = 1 AND bigint_AttributeParentID = "0" ORDER BY text_AttributeDescription ASC, text_AttributeValue ASC;
SELECT * FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE bigint_AttributeServiceID = 1 AND CONCAT(",",bigint_AttributeParentID,",") LIKE CONCAT("%,",CONCAT_WS(";",(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = "Make" AND text_AttributeValue = "GMC")),",%") ORDER BY text_AttributeDescription ASC, text_AttributeValue ASC;

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the problem comes into play with loading the third tier and onwards.
here is the php code that handles this, in the xml generator:

function getrecords($data,$set) {
	global $conn;
	$search = ($set > 0)?
				"CONCAT(\",\",bigint_AttributeParentID,\",\") LIKE CONCAT(\"%,\",CONCAT_WS(\";\",(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = \"".$data[0]."\" AND text_AttributeValue = \"".$data[1]
				:
				"bigint_AttributeParentID = \"".$data."\"";
	switch ($set) {
		case 1:			// 1
			$search .= "\")),\",%\")";
			break;
		case 2:			// 2
			$search .= "\"),(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = \"".$data[2]."\" AND text_AttributeValue = \"".$data[3]."\")),\",%\")";
			break;
		case 3:			// 3
			$search .= "\"),(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = \"".$data[2]."\" AND text_AttributeValue = \"".$data[3]."\"),".
					   "(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = \"".$data[4]."\" AND text_AttributeValue = \"".$data[5]."\")),\",%\")";
			break;
		case 4:			// 4
			$search .= "\"),(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = \"".$data[2]."\" AND text_AttributeValue = \"".$data[3]."\"),".
					   "(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = \"".$data[4]."\" AND text_AttributeValue = \"".$data[5]."\"),".
					   "(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = \"".$data[6]."\" AND text_AttributeValue = \"".$data[7]."\")),\",%\")";
			break;
		default:	// 0
			// do nothing
	}
	$sql = "SELECT * FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE bigint_AttributeServiceID = 1 AND ".$search." ORDER BY text_AttributeDescription ASC, text_AttributeValue ASC;";
	$result = mysql_query_errors($sql , $conn , __FILE__ , __LINE__ , true );
	if ($result) {
		while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
			echo "	<attrib name=\"".$row["text_AttributeDescription"]."\" value=\"".$row["text_AttributeValue"]."\" />\n";
		}
	}
}

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this code creates and executes a third tier sql query as follows:

SELECT * FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE bigint_AttributeServiceID = 1 AND CONCAT(",",bigint_AttributeParentID,",") LIKE CONCAT("%,",CONCAT_WS(";",(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = "Make" AND text_AttributeValue = "FORD"),(SELECT bigint_AttributeID FROM 3_serviceattributes WHERE text_AttributeDescription = "Model" AND text_AttributeValue = "SIERRA3500")),",%") ORDER BY text_AttributeDescription ASC, text_AttributeValue ASC;
An empty result set was returned by the query defined in /home/dwtphovu/public_html/truckcapxchange.com/ajax_attribs2.php on line 48

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the csv with these first 3 tiers of attributes is attached. there are far more than 3 tiers in total, but how would i get a dynamic mysql select working to do what needs to be done? the values are successfully passed via ajax requests.
hope i have been clear enough - awesome thanks to the one who can solve this!
TCX-SERVICEATTRIBUTES-1.3.csv