My birthday's tomorrow, actually, but better early than late. Anyone need last-minute gift ideas? I'm wanting all of the South Park plushes to put around my monitor and don't think my family's gonna indulge me on that. Towelie's my favorite one.
Anyway, as long as the link didn't take you to the last post on a board here, it shouldn't have cleared your Favorites count for that board. If it did, I don't have a solution that comes to mind.
Although, I suppose there's one possibility. If you've still got a window open on Favorites or can hit your Back button to get to it, click the number of new messages for that board, then click the "Mark as Last Read" link for that message. It'll set your Favorites count to that board to take into account all the posts past that one.