I think that a “clean” design is essencial, so I suggest to combine the buttons of the permlink and the number of post… bassically the idea could be add the funcionality of the “get the permalink to this post” to the number of the post…
hope I have explained well
sorry for my english
either button is filterable to alter the content…
also the post number routine has a getter option so you just have it return the number and then add into the label for the permalink if you so desire…
Thanks for the info, just was one idea to made more clean overall looking of the forum 
No worries… we take any and all input… obviously we cannot do everything everyone wants, but we keep a big list… and the most requested tend to work to the top…
Yep, this is only one idea… and is not necesary… i think there are other things that have more priorities… its logical!
I love SP !!!