[SOLVED] WP-Postviews

Hi, I'm trying to use WP_Postviews and the instructions say to put the following code into the theme's index.php file where you want it to appear:

<?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>

This works. I put it after the by-line. However, it looks terrible (and it appears universally on all pages). I would like instead to add it to Post/Page info items just on single pages. However, when I put it in there, it doesn't work. The plugin also says I can use this variable:

%VIEW_COUNT%

Yet when I try that it also doesn't work (it shows the actual text).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Emanuel