How can you get the thumbnail to show up with out it being warped? Most of the featured images we use are not square and when they show up in the related pages they are warped.
However, I did have this working with this working with an older version :
http://www.theitechblog.com/1448/yarpp-template-display-thumbnail-automatically-grabbing-first-image-post
Thanks
Solomon
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/