Using Skype

When I click on a phone number in my contacts, the number is sent to skypeout for dialing- which is awesome!!!

However, in order for the country code to be prepended to the phone number, I have to manually change the phone number in my crm contact (ie. 206.444.5555 becomes 1.206.444.5555

If I don't save my phone numbers in this format, skype out from crm will not work.
If I do save my phone numbers as such, the phone number is no-longer automatically formatted for display by crm, plus I have to worry about inconsistencies of people entering phone data.

Is it possible to have a field such as 'Country_Code', and perhaps a tick box to cause crm to prepend the country code to the number prior to sending on to skype?

If not - does anyone have a good work around for this, or must I manually prepend this code to all phone numbers stored and deal with related issues?

Thanks!