It's similar to the javascript version... only you can do it using CSS. I've seen it done, but I can' remember the code, or the site it was done at. I don't want a background image.. but just a small image to show up on the left-side of the link.

I was wondering in anybody here knew the code for it or could point me to a place that would help?

PS: There's nothing here on LEIA about it.

So you just want it to be a plain text link (originally) and then have an image beside it (on hover)?
Something like this might work...
a:hover { background-image: url(linkimg.gif); background-position: left center; etc... }