I see by looking at the internals of your notebook that you are using Mathematica version 7. So, I believe that syntax highlighting may not have been a feature back at version 7.
I have checked your notebook using my approach in both version 8, 9 and 10 (I no longer have version 7 on hand) and confirm that my analysis is probably right.
I am attaching a notebook with the syntax highlighted brackets removed. This may not be what you desired in terms of the expression grouping so you will have to check. I did this in Version 8. I also fixed an odd syntax problem involving a subtraction--this may have been due to invisible characters, I am not sure.
See the attached notebook
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