I have found a solution to this, but when searching for results it has come to my attention that it "may" be in violation to the Facebook terms of use.
Ray (or someone else here at WebAssist): If that is the case, feel free to remove my solution below. I don't want to break any laws :)
Here was my solution:
1: Insert a LIKE button with the ACTION set to LIKE and the Style set to "Button_Count"
2: In the DIV tag that wraps this scripting, I simply added some custom styles. I set the width to be only 47px wide (enough for the button and a little growth space for different languages) and the Overflow to "hidden" so it would not show anything outside of that width.
Here is a sample of my opening DIV tag:
<div class="wasocial_facebook_like" style="width:47px; overflow:hidden">
In english, this shows the LIKE button, but does not display the count beside it.
