[SOLVED] Using jQuery and Smarty

[SOLVED] Using jQuery and Smarty

I don't understand what's wrong with this. I'm wanting to use jQuery and just beginning to learn it. I started out with a very standard jQuery action that disables a link but Smarty keeps giving a fatal error about $() being a unrecognized tag. I know I can change the $() to something else but I really like how short that function name is... Anyways, all the googling and forum searching has turned up no answers other than making sure you have the call to the .JS file in the script tags at the top which I do of course.

Here's the error:
Fatal error: Smarty error: [in test.tpl line 6]: syntax error: unrecognized tag: $("a").click(function(event){ alert("No where..."); event.preventDefault(); (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 455) in C:\smarty\libs\Smarty.class.php on line 1092


test.tpl:
<html>
<head>
   <title>Skills</title>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function(){
         $("a").click(function(event){
            alert("No where...");
            event.preventDefault();
         });
      });
   </script>
</head>
<body>
   <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a>
   <ul>
      <li>Vulnerability Analysis: <strong>{$svuln}</strong>
      <li>Network Enumeration: <strong>{$senum}</strong>
   </ul>
</body>
</html>


test.php:
<?php

require_once 'smarty.php';
require_once 'login-check.php';
require_once 'stats.php';
$smarty->assign('svuln',getStat('svuln',$userID));
$smarty->assign('senum',getStat('senum',$userID));
$smarty->display('test.tpl');

?>


Thanks to anyone who can help me!