tricky permalinks.

so yet another post about permalinks.

ive set my htaccess permission to 666, permalinks look like theyre working but when i go to click em i get this error

Parse error: parse error in /home/httpd/vhosts/tayo.co.nz/httpdocs/news/wp-content/themes/boredom/single.php on line 15

using theme boredom. heres the entire code for the single.php page from the theme. i cant see anything wrong.

any help is very much appreciated.

site = http://www.tayo.co.nz

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post('&laquo; %','','yes') ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php next_post(' % &raquo;','','yes') ?></div>
</div>

<div class="post">
<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<br /><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/h1.gif" class="lefth2img" alt="h1" />
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

<div class="entrytext">
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

<?php link_pages('<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', '</p>', 'number'); ?>

<small> <?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.','',''); ?> </small>

</div>
</div>

<?php comments_template(); ?>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>