crm 4.0 dynamically filtered entity view

I need to allow the user to apply some custom filtering on a custom view to further reduce the result set. sort of simulate the advanced find but within the view itself.

I tried to create a custom aspx page that has the filter fileds and a resulting grid. However it is a tedious task to get it program both the styling and the functionality of a normal crm view. So i was thinking of a possible solution that will have a custom dynamic filter being applied on a predefined custom entity view. (in the same way a report has parameters.)