I too had the parse error issue. I googled around and found the solution.
First, the response from Doze worked to get me past the first problem in the category.php file:
unexpected T_VARIABLE, expected "(".
Enclosing the "switch" parameter at line 14 with perenthesis got me rolling there.
switch ($pirate['topCategoryTAG']) {
The next issue I saw threw the following error:
parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ’,’ or ’;’
This I resolved by editing lines 50-101 to ensure all array items were properly syntaxed.
new Array("'.$jsBlank.'");
The original file often left off the trailing period.
With those items set, and making sure the document had Cacheable turned off, I was successful in walking through the configuration of a podcast.