Trouble directing wordpress installation to root directory

I have my current site running at http://www.utahskimo.org/blog. I am trying to redirect this to the root site (www.utahskimo.org). I have followed the directions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory and I receive the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘/’ in /home/content/49/8717949/html/UtahSkiMo/index.php on line 17

I have set the WordPress URL to http://utahskimo.org/blog and the Site Address URL to http://utahskimo.org

I have moved the index.php and .htaccess files to the root directory (http://utahskimo.org).

I have updated the index.php file to the following (adding only the ./blog on line 17)
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<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘./blog/wp-blog-header.php' );

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I am running the Catch Everest theme v 1.3.1.

Thank you for any help you can provide.