First of all Somnium ... Welcome to the Monastery!

As for your script problem, I think you will find that this problem is because your editor has saved your source file in Rich Text Format (RTF) instead of plain text. To correct this, open the file again in your editor program and go to "Save As" and make sure that the file type in the "Save as Type" is set as either "Text Document" or "Plain Text".

Good luck!