I have tried something similar and it works fine. I can't tell from your post whether the data sources are together with the dropdowns inside the ItemTemplate of the GridView. At least the second one should be inside the ItemTemplate so that you will have a data source for each line in the grid.
The actual id's are build based on where they are, so you will see something like $GridView1 inserted in the id's. To solve this you can set ClientIDMode="Static" on your page properties (first line of your . Aspx file).
Or use "javascript:var a = document. GetElementById('" + ACTION1_DROPDOWNLIST. ClientID + "').
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