[Nemesis]

back slash is an escape character. Meaning its telling the computer to treat your apostrophes as literals (literally an apostrophe), rather than code.

for example the string 'don't touch me'

could be misinterpreted by a computer as just 'don' while everything else after me could then be reinterpreted as a string even though it is code. so you escape it to get the right string length.

like this 'don/'t touch me'

This is probably caused by php having a certain setting on. I think its called magic quotes.

I am guessing all that data you entered was via text boxes on your website. so when you entered the data the first thing php does is escape code characters, like apostrophes and dollar signs. so that users can not inject code into your site.

It is a security measure though and usually after the data has been cleansed and scanned it should then strip the slashes. Also if the input data is already protected by admin password, all the incoming data should be treated as safe and not need to be checked.

Easiest fix I can think of right now is to go into your database or php files and manually take out the back slashes.

also in your php files that collect the data there should be a line of coding saying add_magic_quotes(); You would want to remove that.