implementing asides

I am attempting to implement asides on my wordpress install, I am pretty sure I have it working but for some reason I get an error saying there is an unexpected $ on line 103, there are only 102 lines in the script, here is the offending code, I cant see anything wrong with it …

<li><!-- Asides -->
<h2><?php _e('Asides'); ?></h2>
<ul id="asides">
<?php query_posts('cat=25'); //Start a new loop to run through the asides ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li id="aside-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Aside: <?php the_title(); ?>">&para;</a> <?php the_content(__('<strong>(more)...</strong>')); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('0 &raquo;', '1 &raquo;', '% &raquo;'); ?> <!--<?php trackback_rdf(); ?>-->
</li>
<?php endwhile; // End the loop ?>
</ul>
</li>