[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Adding YARPP to Thesis Theme

I would like to turn off automatic display of YARPP and move the display code into my Thesis theme custom_functions.

I tried to paste in a generic example from the included templates.

<h3>Related Posts</h3>
<?php if ($related_query->have_posts()):?>
<ol>
	<?php while ($related_query->have_posts()) : $related_query->the_post(); ?>
	<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
</ol>
<?php else: ?>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

This throws a bunch of errors.

related_posts() works fine but I would like to remove the weighting score and perform additional formatting.

Is there something simpler that I can use like:

related_posts(no weighting numbers, different <li>)

I can’t seem to find the definitive guide that explains how to create the code to do this.

Great plug-in otherwise, works like a charm.