With the help from both Joachim Müller and Nibbler (from when I did the same thing in ver 1.3) I have a solution and works perfect. Here are the steps.
First before I begin, this modification will remove a 5 star rating to a single VOTE system. This will replace the line where is normally says "Rate this file (current rating : 1 / 5 with 2 votes)" to "Rate this file (current rating : 2 votes)" and remove the images you see with the 1-5 star under the thumbnail in "Top Rated" area.
1) Add code that will replace all 5 star buttons with 1 vote button.
Open themes.php located in your current theme folder and add
// HTML template for the image rating box
$template_image_rating = <<<EOT
<table align="center" width="{WIDTH}" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="maintable">
<tr>
<td class="tableh2_compact"><b>{TITLE}</b> {VOTES}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tableb_compact" align="center"><a href="{RATE1}" title="{GREAT}" rel="nofollow"><img src="{LOCATION}images/vote.gif" border="0" alt="{GREAT}" /><br /></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
EOT;
You can use this vote.gif button if you like or upload your own to the images folder. (http://www.stangette.com/v2/showcase/images/vote.gif)
Upload both the vote.gif image and theme.php file.
2) Edit english.php file under lang (or whatever language file you have)
find
'rating' => '(current rating : %s / 5 with %s votes)',
replace with
'rating' => '(current rating : %s votes)',
save and upload
3) edit themes.inc.php located in the includes folder.
find
$votes = $CURRENT_PIC_DATA['votes'] ? sprintf($lang_rate_pic['rating'], round($CURRENT_PIC_DATA['pic_rating'] / 2000, 1),
$CURRENT_PIC_DATA['votes']) : $lang_rate_pic['no_votes'];
$pid = $CURRENT_PIC_DATA['pid'];
replace with
$votes = $CURRENT_PIC_DATA['votes'] ? sprintf($lang_rate_pic['rating'], $CURRENT_PIC_DATA['votes']) : $lang_rate_pic['no_votes']; $pid =
$CURRENT_PIC_DATA['pid'];
save and upload.
4) Finally I created a new gif image with 100% transparency and saved it as rating0.gif, rating1.gif, rating2.gif, rating3.gif, rating4.gif and rating5.gif
I uploaded the new files to image folder over writing the old ones. This is so you wouldn't see the rating images on the "Top Rating" page. I'm sure the is a more "proper" way such as removing the code itself but I found this easier and faster. If you do not know how to create gif, save the files from these locations
http://www.stangette.com/v2/showcase/images/rating0.gifhttp://www.stangette.com/v2/showcase/images/rating1.gifhttp://www.stangette.com/v2/showcase/images/rating2.gifhttp://www.stangette.com/v2/showcase/images/rating3.gifhttp://www.stangette.com/v2/showcase/images/rating4.gifhttp://www.stangette.com/v2/showcase/images/rating5.gifRight click and save link as because you wont see the image since it is transparent and will work with any theme. Upload them to the main images folder.
And voila. You can see an example at
http://www.stangette.com/v2/showcase/index.php but you will have to creat an account to see the single vote
mod.
I hope this help anyone out there and thanks again to Joachim Müller and Nibbler for helping me out.