advanced poll 2

trying to use advanced poll, installed it succesful, but now trying to embed it in my homepage but just giving this string
poll_process(4); ?>

this is wat i'm using in my page
<?php
// Important! You have to include it before your html code
include_once "/var/www/html/poll/poll_cookie.php";
?>

<html>
<body>
<?php
include_once "/var/www/html/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(4);
?>
</body>
</html>

can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
using MySQL (working)
php 4.2.2
apache 2.0
linux 9

I like this one to work...

Make sure there are no spaces or characters before the FIRST <?php and make sure the pages extension is .php not .htm or .html

Auron