WP-Polls & showing poll without widgets and sidebar.php?

I don’t use widgets or the sidebar.php that comes with WP because my sidebars are defined in my header.php. But I am trying to get it to show up on one of my sidebars. Is there any way I can make this plugin work? I tried the coding found in the templates, but it didn’t work and all it showed were the %polls% text and the vote button.

If not could someone recommend another wp poll plugin or a script I could upload. I really like this plugin but I’m not sure about how to get it to work with my type of layout.