As a followup on this. I tried moving the post options icons into the user cell but this posed a couple of problems. I couldn't force the icons to be placed at the bottom of the cell and make it work in all browser because of the varying rowspans needed. Problem 2: When a user posts a short post it makes a large chunk of blank space in the post body area. Problem 3: This won't work when a user sets post headers to top.
So, if at all possible it would be best if we can keep the icons in the post body area, since there is plenty of room for more icons to be added. We just need to find a way to separate it a bit like Brewskie was talking about.