This seems the best place to post my issue – sorry to dilute the topic.
It seems there is definitely a firefox issue with wp-poll
Voting in IE7 works fine, but FF just reloads the page after attempting to vote (fade out). This is both on dev and live server, so I don’t think this is a corrupt file issue (as was … well the same wp-poll plugin delete functionality in the admin area – which is now fixed).
[FF Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
and
wp-poll 2.20]