Qoute problem

Hi! I was hoping that someone could help me out. I am not positive if I understand whats going on.. so let me try to explain. This is a process to modify news articles in a MySQL database. (From the point after picking the article to modify) PHP Script #1: I grab everything from the database and stick it into the HTML form (textarea, text, etc). I allow the user to modify whatever they want. PHP Script #2: This script takes the new information and displays it to the user.. it is a preview of what it will look like with the changes. PHP Script #3: Updates the news article in the database. Now the problem I am having.. is that the description and content fields have qoutes in them. For example: Description: I like to run and walk. I love "smelly cheese." So.. when it tries to update the database. It will only store this as the description: I like to run and walk. I love\\ I know that its because the qoutes are not being escaped correctly.. and it seems as though it is escaping the escape. So my question is.. how can I keep my qoutes? Just FYI.. I am making the user enter in the description and content in html. So i cant just change the qoutes to HTMLTags because it would change my <P> and <a href=> etc. Below is an example of the code (shortened for an example): PHP Script #1: Editing description print' </textarea><br> Description:<br><textarea name=describe cols=40 rows=10>'; echo $info["description"]; print' </textarea><br>'; PHP Script #2: (preview changes) <input type=hidden name=describe value="<?php print $describe?>"> <b>Description:</b><br> <?php print $describe?> <p> PHP Script #3: (update database) $sql = "UPDATE news SET release_date='$date', title='$title', description='$describe', contact='$contact', content='$test', type='$type' WHERE news_id=$id"; $result = mysql_query($sql) Thanks in advance. -Tanya