We tried this in early testing and it didn't work because there's no way to see (a) what they do (we had to add a speech bubble on mouseover or (b) that they were supposed to be links at all (we had to add a big flashing "click here" sign post). Didn't really look or work as well as hoped.

Actually... It could work BUT instead of just the icon, how about using the icon with the text - so as it is now, but with the icon as well (to the left of the text maybe)

(offtopic: yay for IRC and do you have any better APIs for getting top leaderboard people rather than screenscraping T_T)