it would take a few tries b4 mine started and day by day more tries were needed till i said f'it and bought a new one. i think i got it up to 35 clicks b4 it started on the old starter. lol i had to count. it was outta control

 

if it was clicking...my guess was a bad solenoid, probably stuck

 

A lot of times the copper contact points in the starter just get dirty/wore out. You can get the rebuild parts from toyota for like $20 and there is a very good how-to article on team-integra.net that I used to rebuild my starter a couple months ago.

http://www.team-integra.net/sections...ArticleID=1079

PS. My starter worked for over a year once I started having problems with it. I would just have to keep trying and eventually it would start.