Kaizen,
There's not much control we have over the display of the Like button. Facebook restricts styling to prevent admins from basically making the button look like a link or something else the user may not know what they are clicking on (to artificially inflate Likes).
With that said though, it sounds like you would like the "Button Count" style more than the "Box Count" type you're using now. Try switching to that and see if it looks more like what you're looking for. Not much can be changed if not, so hopefully one of those styles will work for you.
Thanks,
Alex