Facebook doesn't allow you to disable the ticker - it only allows you to make it smaller:
You can't close ticker, but you can make it smaller by moving the horizontal bar between ticker and chat. Slide the bar up to hide ticker and make your chat list longer. Pull the bar down to show more of the ticker and hide chat.
Facebook does count your deleted albums as I opened a new profile added two albums then I desided to delete one and it's still saying I have two albums and I did all of this before adding any friends to my profile. No pictures or albums are limited to the number of audience and because I had no friends on my list I had no one to tag me to their albums. The Photo/Album counters are just a silly idea and should be taken off.
Also
On the maps if you add a location to a status then later on delete the status the pinpoint counter is not removed.
If Facebook are thinking up Ideas to make it better maybe they should make it so they actually work.
Best Answer
As of May 24, 2015, it has been reported that going through the following link will allow changing the order of albums easily:
The solution was posted on Facebook here, and most users, including myself, found that it is working.