The problem seems to have something to do with settings for so called magic quotes. I have been advised and I quote:

This is a recent Hostmonster and Bluehost server issue

In php.ini change this

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = Off

But now I have another problem. As soon as I try to save a block I get a message similar to the following regardless of browser used. The wording in Chrome is:

The changes you made will be lost when you leave this page. Are you sure you want to leave this page?
[with choices] Leave this page? Stay on this page?

Any experience with this?

Thanks

Tony

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann <nan_wich@bellsouth.net> wrote:

I have never encountered this. The first place I would look is the filters that are part of the input format. That's why I suggested creating an input format with no filters.

Nancy
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From: Anthony <tony@tony-mac.com>
To: support@drupal.org; Ms. Nancy Wichmann <nan_wich@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [support] Strange characters in source of block

Yes am admin. Have disabled wysiwyg. Have disabled CKEditor. Have even tried to set the filter to Display Suite Code, plus all the other filters. Have disabled pathlogic.
Something is still inserting the backslashes before quotation marks. Could I have chosen some option somewhere that would do this? Crazy.

Anthony Stefan Maciejowski