Addslashes / DB Sort

PHP / MySQL I'm using PHP to retrieve user input and store it in MySQL. PHP's addslashes function is used on data going into the database and PHP's stripslashes function is being used on data coming from the database. This is allowing me to store and retrieve data with no problems, but it's causing problems when trying to sort data. In particular, data with double or single quotes is getting escaped, which changes it's position in the sort. For example, without using addslashes, I can sort by Title and end up with the following results: 'Pizza' For Techies Drinking Beer The OOP Way The World According To Linus But. if I use addslashes and try to sort by Title, I end up with: Drinking Beer The OOP Way The World According To Linus \'Pizza\' For Techies Is there a way to account for this? Thanks, Ed