How to customize My Accounts tab in DP

After much experimentation I settled on the Simple:Press forum. Should have taken Daniela and Richard’s advice straightaway and I would have saved much frustration.

But here’s one last detail I’m trying to solve:

1) Users must log in to post.

2) After the user logs in he gets the DP “My Account” page. Then he must click FORUMS in the overhead menu again. Many of my demographic won’t know to do that, therefore it’s not really good usability.

3) I’d like to add that link, and preferably with a little icon, to the My Account desktop choices (My Account Details, My Messages, etc). Can that be done without complicated custom programming?

Or does anybody have a suggestion for a workaround that affords good usability?