Graham Lordeagle The code will work
but the the xtcat counter is not a hit counter it is a page counter that's why in my version the counter is only updated on the landing page
The ones in the actual filelist are the display only mode of the counter (type="display1")
http://ggnnww.yn.lt/all_tricks_filelist
also you can make most of this into a separate javascript function and just call it from the filelist using the counter as a variable