Adding IE conditional stylesheet

[oceano]

ZC 1.3.5

Could someone lend a dab of php expertise on adding a stylesheet that has a conditional into the header? I may about have it but for a syntax error...

This stylesheet conditional works fine for me in other static sites I've done.

<!--[if gte ie 5.5000]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/stylesheet_ie.css" /><![endif]-->

This is what I'm tryingwith the html_header.php file in my_custom common folder; note the closing tag for the conditional:

/**
* load all template-specific stylesheets, named like "style*.css", alphabetically
*/
$directory_array = $template->get_template_part($template->get_template_dir('.css',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'css'), '/^style/', '.css');
while(list ($key, $value) = each($directory_array)) {
echo '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' . $template->get_template_dir('.css',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'css') . '/' . $value . '" />'."\n";
}

/**
* Special IE Overide -- load all template-specific stylesheets, named like "style*.css", alphabetically
*/
$directory_array = $template->get_template_part($template->get_template_dir('.css',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'cssie'), '/^style/', '.css');
while(list ($key, $value) = each($directory_array)) {
echo '<!--[if gte ie 5.5000]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' . $template->get_template_dir('.css',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'cssie') . '/' . $value . '" />'."\n" . '<![endif]-->' .;
}