Well I looked into it and your right. I am really sorry about all that. There is an old plugin I use that I had forgotten about that lets me use \* before the text to add the codes to any field. It turns out this code also works with the plugin parameters from your plugin and now the icon does show up in the menus.
Sorry to have wasted your time there bud, I feel a little foolish now.=) I'll post a link to the plugin I use in case you wanted to take a look at it. Your plugin is perfect as is, I should have expected as much.=) Keep rocking.