shipping estimator breaks at line 8?

[tvadpro]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /public_html/includes/templates/my_custom_template/templates/tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php on line 8

Above error is what I get where I should see the estimated shipping in the shopping cart. Looked at tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php, but nothing jumps out at me. Exceptionally baffling in that line 8 is commented author/version notes, containing no '}' whatsoever.

Any ideas? I am encountering this error on a site running 1.3.6. I compared tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php to its counterpart on another site running 1.3.5 with the 1.3.6 database patch, and the files are perfectly identical. The shipping estimator on the other site works fine.

Prior to upgrading the site with the broken estimator to 1.3.6, I had some custom coding done to prevent different Product Types from going through the checkout together (long story) -- I wonder if I may have mutilated something pertaining to the override when I upgraded. So far, everything else seems to work fine.

[tvadpro]

I don't know why this worked, but it did.

I deleted extra lines from tpl_modules_shipping_estimator.php, then tried again. Works like a charm now.

It's a moot point, but I'm awe-struck by how a file that throws errors on one site can work fine on another. Maybe a subtle difference in configuration of shared hosting servers?

No matter: I'm just relieved it works again.

[Ajeh]

Might be one of those mysterious errors of the invisible something living on a line and by deleting it you remove whatever the invisible something was ...

[tvadpro]

Death to the Invisible Somethings!

[Ajeh]

I have often wished that myself ... but they live on ...