Flash Poll System
You can run a reliable poll with a nice flash skin interface. The system comes complete with 3 skins, .fla source to modify as you deem necessary, install script and install instructions.
Installation Procedure 
Quick Tips
The script can be downloaded from here.
The file that you will download is saved in .zip format; this is a compressed bundle containing the files in the distribution. Unzip this archive in a temporary directory on your computer using decompression software.
Open Connections/poll.php with a text editor and fill in the required data.
$hostname_poll = "127.0.0.1"; //This is the host-You can leave it like this
$database_poll = "your DB name"; //This is the database name
$username_poll = "your member ID"; //This is the username associated with the DB
$password_poll = "your DB password"; //And ,of course, the password
Open up the install.php:
search for
$query12="INSERT INTO `flash_access` VALUES ('admin', 'password', 'http://www.rantchaos.com/newpoll/');";
inline change:
http://www.rantchaos.com/newpoll/ to your correct path.
Eg, http://www.mywebsite.com/polls/
Start your FTP software and upload all content from the /upload directory to your web server preserving the file structure.
Note: Let's assume you install the contents of the script to /var/www/html/polls/
Point your browser to http://www.mywebsite.com/polls/install.php and run it.
Go to http://www.mywebsite.com/polls. This is your Control panel. By default, the administration account is: username: admin password: password. You can change it from the CP in settings.
Go to settings (in control panel) and fill in the poll address (including a final slash; ex: http://www.mywebsite.com/polls/ ).
Delete the install.php using your FTP client when finished.
Go to "new poll" from the admin area and create a new poll.
Make sure that you "open" the poll from the poll list on the menu or the poll will not show on the page.
Now just copy-paste the code given in SETTINGS (in CP) on any site. example of the source from the settings to place would be as follows:
<EMBED src=http://www.rantchaos.com/newpoll/poll/poll.swf?homepath=http://www.rantchaos.com/newpoll/ width=160 height=350 type=application/x-shockwave-flash bgcolor="#FFFFFF" quality="high"></EMBED>
Congratulations, the installation Flash Poll System is now complete.
The script loading slow problems are now correct but it is advised that if you run poll with 7 or 8 options, that you keep the choices to one line options, or the poll will not function.
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