I downloaded the popular contest plugin but when trying to activate the following error message displayed fatal error. Incorrect table name '' on line: 255. So I found the following solution in a recent topic titled " I cannot activate this plugin".
But after trying this solution now every time I try to click on anything within my site it goes to a blank page with the following statment at the top:Table 'ak_popularity_options' already exists on line: 255.
So now my site is down until I can fix some how. Please help

This solution in a recent topic titled " I cannot activate this plugin
Edit the plugin file. Find the SQL statements that create the two tables. It's around line 255. You can do a case sensitive search for the string: "CREATE TABLE" to find the statements as well.
Change the first line of each of the two SQL statements from:
CREATE TABLE $wpdb->ak_popularity_options (
to:
CREATE TABLE ak_popularity_options (
and, a few lines down, from:
CREATE TABLE $wpdb->ak_popularity (
to:
CREATE TABLE ak_popularity (
Save the file and try again to install. If you get another error saying that a table already exists, as I did, re-edit the plugin file and restore those lines, that is, put the $wpdb-> part back into the SQL statements and try again. It worked for me, I hope you have the same luck.