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Old 04-15-2008
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By quick inspection:

You are lacking a closing quote on the USAGE variable

You have the wrong parentheses in "case $(OPTION)". The proper parentheses would be curly braces, but they aren't really necessary here. ${OPTION} or just $OPTION

There is a double semicolon missing after the "b" case