My team and I figured this one out, here’s the solution and we are offering our services to those that don’t feel like fixing them themselves. Nothing is lost, it just takes a bit to put the pieces all back together. First thing though is to look on your computer for a keylogger program that sends your wordpress password to the script kiddies. http://www.designandpromote.com/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-t_variable-solved/
I had the same problem on 15 of the blogs I manage. I found that my client has a spyware program that phoned home his password and some script must have added the bad code to the blog. It took me a bit to figure out the solution but here’s the cure. http://www.designandpromote.com/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-t_variable-solved/