PHP broken code on local machine but working on staging server

I'm having a strange issue here, i have this bit of code:

<?php
if ($node->nid == "1"开发者_JS百科) {
    include 'front.tpl.php';
    return;
} else { 
?>

    <div id="left-col" class="grid_9">
        <h1><?php print $title ?></h1>
        <hr />
        <?php global $user;if ( $is_admin ) { ?>[<a href="/node/<?php print $node->nid ?>/edit">Edit</a>]<? } ?>
            <?php if ($show_messages) { print $messages; } ?>
                <?php print $help ?>
            <?php print $content; ?>        
    </div>
<?php } ?>

This exact code is working fine on the staging server, i've litrally just installed a LAMP stack using XAMPP and downloaded the code from the server.

PHP is now throwing this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in F:\Workspace\xx\xx\xx\xx\xx\node.tpl.php on line 19

Anyone have any ideas what it could be? i have a feeling it "might" be due to the jumping in and out of tags but i'm not certain, can anyone shed some light on this. (this might be a server issue in which case i will also happily take advice on what php.ini settings need to be poked in the right direction!

Thanks in advance.

My guess is the server doesn't have short tag support turned on.

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