I believe you are talking about the Admin Block. This is output that you are sending in your plugin function.
Let me give an example:
function plugin_getadminoption_forum()
You will have:
Text Formatted Code
return array('Forum', $_CONF['site_admin_url'] . '/plugins/forum/index.php', $numtopics);
The second parm $numtopics is what you are seeing.
Geeklog components by PortalParts -- www.portalparts.com