STS Installation Problem

[dapper]

Hi everyone, hopefully someone will be able to make sense of this for me. I'm new to OSC and i've just installed STS on a slightly modified OSC install to see if it makes my life easier making mods to how the store looks. I merged all the changes, uploaded the extra files but when i went to check the store i got the following error

 

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /homepages/39/d118852182/htdocs/GB/catalog/includes/footer.php on line 84

 

The strange thing is I've checked footer.php and line 84 contains only ?> and nothing else.

 

This is the code from my footer.php file

 

<?php
/*
 $Id: footer.php,v 1.26 2003/02/10 22:30:54 hpdl Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/

 // STS: ADD
 // Get the output between column_right.php and footer.php
 $sts_block_name = 'columnright2footer';
 require(STS_RESTART_CAPTURE);
 // STS: EOADD

 require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'counter.php');

 // STS: ADD
 $sts_block_name = 'counter';
 require(STS_RESTART_CAPTURE);
 // STS: EOADD

?>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1">
 <tr class="footer">
   <td class="footer">  <?php echo strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG); ?>  </td>
   <td align="right" class="footer">  <?php echo $counter_now . ' ' . FOOTER_TEXT_REQUESTS_SINCE . ' ' . $counter_startdate_formatted; ?>  </td>
 </tr>
</table>
<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
   <td align="center" class="smallText">
<?php
/*
 The following copyright announcement can only be
 appropriately modified or removed if the layout of
 the site theme has been modified to distinguish
 itself from the default osCommerce-copyrighted
 theme.

 For more information please read the following
 Frequently Asked Questions entry on the osCommerce
 support site:

 http://www.oscommerce.com/community.php/faq,26/q,50

 Please leave this comment intact together with the
 following copyright announcement.
*/

 echo FOOTER_TEXT_BODY
?>
   </td>
 </tr>
</table>
<?php

 // STS: ADD
 $sts_block_name = 'footer';
 require(STS_RESTART_CAPTURE);
 // STS: EOADD

 if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '468x50')) {
 if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '468x60')) {
?>
<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
   <td align="center"><?php echo tep_display_banner('static', $banner); ?></td>
 </tr>
</table>
<?php

 // STS: ADD
 $sts_block_name = 'banner';
 require(STS_RESTART_CAPTURE);
 // STS: EOADD

 }
?>

 

Can anyone see where i've gone wrong? Is this due to something in another file? I just have no idea!