[Sam FT]

I asked this over at vb.com but I didn't get a reply. So I am now asking it here.

Ok let me give you some background information before I ask the question. Currently I have a forum section called NASCAR News which is setup to moderate all new threads. It is sorta of a pain having to go into the admin or mod cp to find out if there is any new moderated threads. The reason why I am doing this is because the NASCAR News shows up on my front page/vbindex page. I have a Main Menu block which is just a custom template

Currently the Main Main looks like this

Home
Forums
Links
Contact Us
Submit News
Admin Control Panel

What I am wanting to to do is add a number next to the "Admin Control Panel" link and to tell me that there is new threads to be moderated. Like this...

Home
Forums
Links
Contact Us
Submit News
Admin Control Panel (1)

Basically just pulling information from the database, etc and have it displayed as a number. And this number tells me if I have any moderated threads. I have tried severals thing, but I can't get it to work. Any suggestions would be helpful. Or I am even willing to pay someone for this.