title: Google Chrome Extension Javascript Unexpected Token Illegal
body: <p>This may seem familiar, but I can't find anything about it...sure I've found stuff about "Unexpected Token Illegal," but these circumstances don't relate enough for those solutions to make sense.</p>
  
  <p>I have my <a href="http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/background_pages.html" rel="nofollow">background page</a>, like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Background Page&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="background.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>A small piece of w3-compliant markup, yet this is where the error "Unexpected Token ILLEGAL" occurs, on line 1.  If I add a blank line at the top, it still throws an error at line one.</p>
  
  <p>In my Javascript, I call three initialization functions:</p>
  
  <pre><code>localData.init();
  localRead.init();
  getTitles();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I comment all three of these functions (no fewer), the error goes away.  I've triple checked the rest of my code, and can see nothing wrong, syntactically or logically.</p>
  
  <p>I am completely stumped...I've been programming in Javascript for years, and yet it still finds oddities to throw at me.</p>