Thanks very kindly sir, what I ended up doing was create my own custom image 15x15pix then have the code substitute that whenever there is no icon. In postbit I added a clear to each side of where the icon would be and also justified that cell to the left. So now it's a clean look with space enough for titles and icons. Lookin sharp!
Also my problem before was I changed one of the numbers in the code to like 15 and the other was 23, if you change the amount of characters shown make sure to change both to the same.
Thanks for all your help DR2000! sweet hack!