[Chad_Austin]

You're correct Steve... I found it within fancy_subcateogries.tpl... located by this path: skin1/modules/Fancy_Categories/Icons

Within the <span>, you can see my down and dirty "inline" solution below.

{strip}
      <a href="home.php?cat={$catid}"{if $config.Appearance.count_products eq "Y"} title="{$lng.lbl_products|escape}: {$c.product_count|default:0}{if $c.subcategory_count gt 0} {$lng.lbl_subcategories|escape}: {$c.subcategory_count}{/if}"{/if} class="{if $config.Fancy_Categories.icons_icons_in_categories gte $level+1}icon-link{/if}{if $config.Fancy_Categories.icons_disable_subcat_triangle ne 'Y' && $c.subcategory_count gt 0} sub-link{/if}{if $config.Fancy_Categories.icons_empty_category_vis eq 'Y' && !$c.childs && !$c.product_count} empty-link{/if}{if $config.Fancy_Categories.icons_nowrap_category eq 'Y'} nowrap-link{/if}">
        {if $config.Fancy_Categories.icons_icons_in_categories gte $level+1 && $c.is_icon}
          <img src="{$c.icon_url|amp}" alt="" />
        {/if}
        {$c.category|amp}
        {if $config.Fancy_Categories.icons_display_products_cnt eq 'Y' && $c.top_product_count gt 0}
           <span style="font-size: 9px; font-weight:normal; color: #82730c">({$c.top_product_count})</span>
        {/if}
      </a>
      {/strip}

Thanks for point in the right direction, Steve.. I put all this on here so hopefully somone else will benefit from my ignorance.

Chad