replace sessions

Hello fellow PHP'ers. Here is my situation. I'm trying to prepare a content posted by a form for insertion into our database. The two problems I am having is that POST is performing two actions on this content that end up messing it up for later when I pull it out of the database and display it on a webpage. 1) Magic quotes are turned on so all single quotes get transformed into two single quotes. Not a big problem, but it conceivably could complicate number 2 which is my real problem. 2) Sessions are being used in the application so that means that the content pieces I submit to this execution page have sessionid's appended to all their links. That's bad. Is there a patter replace or something that could go through a body of text and isolate just the http://xxx.xxxxx.xxx/?stuff=xxx&SESSIONID=xxxx pieces out of things like <a href=> and remove just the SESSIONID? I already have a function that seems like it should be able to remove an argument from a URL. I still need something that will find the URL's in the body of content so that I can drop the SESSIONID after it has been posted. Pretty much, I want to undo what sessions do such a good job of doing. Thanks for all you're help, -Ethan Nelson, Modulus, LLC