Featured Post Plugin

I am trying to use the Featured Post Plugin.

It says to post this following code outside the loop:

<?php if function_exists(‘featuredposts’) { featuredposts(); } ?>

so this is how I posted it: (second line)

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if function_exists(‘featuredposts’) { featuredposts(); } ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?>>
<div class=”post-header”>
<h2>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class=”date”><span><?php the_time(__ (‘F j, Y g:i A’, ‘vigilance’)) ?></div>

but then I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ‘(‘ in /home1/redninfo/public_html/wp-content/themes/vigilance/index.php on line 2

what is the problem?