Thanks mate...
Yeah, what really annoyed me was that all the tests were successful before the install ran.
I ran that, and nothing changed. I then realised that it had modded some files, and not others. Anyway, we'll get there... just going to take a bit of time (it's a wee way down the list of things to sort out at the moment, but it'll be back up to the top soon enough
).
As for removing the post count, try
this thread on the smf forums.
There were a couple of other files to change in addition to that (mainly stats based ones, ie show posts when displaying user stats etc.), but that gives you a very good place to start