HTML_QuickForm - javascript bug?

Hi, I had my site working great until I moved it over to the real live server. After the move, all javascript error messages don't have the line breaks in place. instead of a slash (back-slash?) and "n", the is just the "n". It's like remove slashes is on for javascript before getting rendered. This isn't just a display problem, but also a validation problem as well because the email validation function doesn't work anymore either. I'm suspecting the rest of the JS is messed up too. Does anyone know what this could be from? Thanks in advance, Matt