I, too, was upset about the friends find counts being removed, but I have serious doubts that we are being listened to, so I took my own approach to fixing it, which I'll share here. This may not be practical if you've got tons of friends but if you want to quickly watch 10 cachers or so, it works fine.
First, go to your current friends, and make a list of their GUID's which are numbers found on the cacher name link on the friends page.
They look like this "http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=cff16fe6-db1a-40b4-bee9-e3205b3151ac".'>http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=cff16fe6-db1a-40b4-bee9-e3205b3151ac". The number you want is to the right of the "=" sign. If you want to see their avatar picture, copy that link address of their picture, and make note of the JPG name after the word "avatar".
On your personal profile page, you can place the following HTML, and then you will see the avatar of your friend, and their status box with both their find AND correct number of hides! All you need to do is replace the JPG name with the avatar picture name, and change the two copies of the GUID found in this text with the ones of your friends. This will make the stats bar linkable, so you can go and see exactly what they found..
<img src=http://img.geocaching.com/user/avatar/4b61c7b5-01fe-4642-bde6-53c40b829b8e.jpg><a href="http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=cff16fe6-db1a-40b4-bee9-e3205b3151ac" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/stats/img.aspx?&uid=cff16fe6-db1a-40b4-bee9-e3205b3151ac&bg=1" border="0" ></a>
The text that needs to be customized is in bold above.
I hope that this is helpful. If you want to see how it looks, feel free to visit my profile page. I'm PORTERA.
Enjoy!