Component not showing in frontend on Joomla! 1.7 - plugins

I have successfully installed a plugin called "Plotalot", which draws flashcharts, on my Joomla! 1.7.
I have unfortunately installed the free version of it because I want to be sure it's useful, and the free version comes with the component-tool only and not with the plugin (It's cheap, but I hate purchasing stuff that's not worth using).
With the component-tool on the backend site I'm able to create new charts, edit existing charts and I'm also capable of seeing a demonstration of the chart that I just made on the backend site.
But, when I try to see the chart on the frontend site, I only see the tags which I wrote in an Article and no chart. In this case: {plotalot id="1"}
I've been in touch with this customer support guy on this matter, and all he can say is that it should be a chart when i write {plotalot id="1"} if there's a chart with the ID=1. Which it does
Does anyone have any experience on how plugins or component-tools in Joomla! 1.7 works and how they can be displayed in an Article?
I would very much appreciate if someone can help me :)
Kind regards, Steve-O

I'm also a Plotalot user. Your question does not make sense. If you installed the free version, you did not install a plugin, you installed a component. Plotalot does not draw flash charts, it draws Google charts. If you want a chart in an article, buy the plugin. And read the user guide, it explains all of this very clearly.

you have to use some tags in the article in which you want to display the charts.The tags will be explained in the documentation of the plug in
eg:we use {flashchart data="50,60,70,80,90,60|109,120,100,130,140,100"} sample01{/flashchart}
to display flash chart.

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You mentioned:
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However, if you meant that you shouldnt need access to google at all, then GCharts is the only remaining and a pretty good option.
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There is also "sparklines" - they are available in lots of flavours (very simple charts though).
gchart looks seriously awesome. Go with it !
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+1 flot, requires jQuery though, so might not play well with GWT, I haven't used that.
Another flash option, with a pre-built GWT integration - Open Flash Chart / ofcgwt.
I think that gwt-chart is a better framework for you.
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