Advanced Poll - different title for each poll

I'd like the title of each poll to be different. The code below is my attempt, but is doesn't work. Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated. (By the way, I've got all my html files parsing php, so there is no problem with using the html extension).

In display_head.html:
I replaced $pollvars[title] with <?php echo $polltitle; ?>

In my html:
<?php
$polltitle = "My Poll Title";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(1);
?>

But like I said, it doesn't work. Thanks in advance for any and all help.