related content module

Hey Drupal peeps--

I've got a question for you...what is with the Related Content module??? Is the only way to theme it through the php? To use it you have to set up a view, but then it doesn't actually use the fields from that view, it seems to have a default view of its own that's overriding that (which I can only guess is coming from the php, based on what's in the Read me. Otherwise it does exactly what I'm looking for, but I need to be able to make it show the related content as only the titles of the related nodes, as links in a list. Preferably as a block.

Many thanks!
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