Whats wrong with my jquery, $ not defined!

Im trying to use this jquery script Tablesorter which states that all I have to do it put this in `
$.noConflict();
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
$(“#myTable”).tablesorter();
});

and its fine. but firfox's error console keeps telling me that "$ is undefined"

Im calling my jquery file and the table.js file like this:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/table.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/jquery.js”></script>
`

but no matter what I do I keep getting the undefined error.