Andrew,
I love this hack; I am using it on two of my sites. My questions are:
1..Can you make it so we can select how many columns we want to display on the page like with the script I am testing here:
http://cardraft.com
2. How can I make it so instead of showing the number of links in a category like ?[6 entries]? to show as just ?(6)? right after the description? (as you can see on the link above)
3. Is there any way we can run this hack in mysite.com/local_links.php instead of in mysite.com/forums/local_links.php ?