[oz_moses]

I got this working, required some changes to the searchbit template and I think some CSS changes as well. All my post icons are 40x40 pixels..

Replace

			<!--  status icon block -->
			<a class="threadstatus" rel="vB::AJAX" title="
			<vb:if condition="$show['threadcount']">
				{vb:rawphrase have_x_posts_in_thread_last_y, {vb:raw thread.dot_count}, {vb:raw thread.dot_lastpost}}
			</vb:if>
			"></a>

With

			<!--  status icon block -->
			<a class="threadstatus" rel="vB::AJAX" title="
			<vb:if condition="$show['threadcount']">
				{vb:rawphrase have_x_posts_in_thread_last_y, {vb:raw thread.dot_count}, {vb:raw thread.dot_lastpost}}
			</vb:if>
            		" style="background-image: url('{vb:raw thread.threadiconpath}'); background-size: 40px"</a>