Hi,

I've got an odd transition problem that involves three different
drupal installs that I'd like to eventually transition to one:

/dr47: a drupal4.7+ecommerce(abandoned) site with all my site's content
/estore: a drupal5.1/ubercart7c estore that works fine
/dr53: a drupal5.3 site with all my site's content upgraded from dr47
with the dead ecommerce stuff (not yet completely deleted)

presently I've got the original site linked to mysite.com via
ln -sf dr47 public_html
and I access the estore with a menu link to mysite.com/estore
ln -sf dr47/estore /estore
and everything works fine

However, when I swap out to the upgraded site dr53
with this
ln -sf dr53 public_html
and this
ln -sf dr53/estore /estore

a click on mysite.com/estore yields this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&', expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in estore/modules/uc_simpleinventory/uc_simpleinventory.module on line 52

I'm really not in a good time spot to
clean out ecommerce from dr53 and reinstall ubercart over that,
or swing the dr47 content over to the working estore ,
and I'm hoping I can get a clue on what this error means.

It's the same drupal install "estore" and it's coughing up an error
that depends on which site is invoking it.
Any thoughts/hints/advice
would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
DK