urlencode and decode are producing \\\' instead of \'

Hi there, I am trying to fill a form again when an error occures, therefore I redirect to the form and pass the values via url like this: HEADER("Location:/profiles/6".$recipient_id."2.html?subject=".rawurlencode($ subject)."&message=".rawurlencode($message).""); then I put it in again like this <textarea name="message" rows="10" style="width:485px;" cols="58" wrap="virtual">'.rawurldecode($message).'</textarea> The problem is, that this is causing a message like this: test \\\' So what's wrong? Can anybody help on this? Thank you, Andy