widget Tag link format use

How can I customize my tags, using the widget, to just show up as “tag name (tag counter)”?

I tried to use the widget’s “Tag link format:” field to look like this: %tag_name% (%tag_count%), and that shows my tag list in the format I want but they don’t show up as an link.

I also tried putting this under “Tag link format:”:

%tag_name% (%tag_count%)

but when I save the widget, the field gets changed to “%tag_name% (%tag_count%)”

Any suggestions? All I want is a simple list of tags sorted by count number in desc order, where the list has the format “tag-name (tag-count)” and the “tag-name” part is a link to http://mydomain.com/tag/tag-name .

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/