mmc prefmon snap in W2k3

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I'm trying to set up some performance monitoring logs on a W2K3 system. I'm using teh mmc prefmon snap in and trying to create logs from that that i can use to show our customer.
So far i've setup

System\system up time
Processor (_total)\%processor time
processor (_total)\%privilege time
processot (_total)\%user time
memory\page/sec
memory\available ram
physical disk(instance)\disk transfer
network interfcae \ bytes total/sec

What i cant find is, is there a way to log how many processes are running as well? I know if i goto task manager i can see a total of 66 processes but can prefmon log this as well, and is so which counter is it?
Also whats the best file format to view this in on anothe rpc afterwards? Tab dlimited, Comma dlimited, Sql or?

 

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Perfmon is pretty crappy. I always use Cacti for performance monitoring - it's a breeze to set up and available for Windoze and Linux. Cacti allows you to monitor absolutely everything you can think of on a system - one of the default graphs I always create for a system is running processes.

But I digress! I think the performance counter you want to look at is "Objects: Processes"

 

Thanks Zeb, dont mind the digression! I'll look at cacti, if its free its a possibility, if you have to pay then it depends on costs. As far as i know we're allowed to install 3rd party apps on the customers servers so long as thier not too intrusive.
As for the prefmon, it was so obvious i suppose. But then again, i'm not used to lookin at that.