I tried installing it on VB3 RC4 and I get this
What am I doing wrong? I am following the instructions to the teeth.

I have this working fine on RC4. If I give you the benefit of the doubt and say you have indeed followed the instructions correctly, I'd say maybe it's the PHP editor you're using or there's a hack conflict. Something like that.

Don't use Dreamweaver to modify functions.php

I am using Wordpad actually. My board is completely unhacked. As original as apple pie. thanks :disappointed:

What is the piece of code on that line that is giving the error?

WordPad can be problematic too, though admittedly I've not noticed any problems on it for vB3 yet. I use Winsyntax. It's free and it does the job.

I haven't seen any problems with Wordpad yet, and I think Wordpad is good for a simple editor. It's better than Notepad because it doesn't add extra line breaks, Notepad adds CR / LF but Wordpad is only CR I believe :)

This is very weird for me, I have no hacks installed whatsoever, I always use wordpad to edit my .php files, and although I am not an expert at hacking php. I have successfully installed many hacks and major additions in the past. So this is mind blowing. But thanks for all the suggestions, really wish I could get this sucka to work, It is one of my fav.

What is there on the line then? You probably did something wrong ;)

I used to have some trouble with it on vB2 because of how it formatted text. I'm starting to think it was some sort of different version to what I have now (that gives me no trouble) seeing as I'd installed a new OS since vB2 (hence a different WordPad installation). I know this though, the hack works fine for me on RC4 following Erwin's instructions.