I am trying to figure out what is going wrong here.
The database is the same and I am using the same "magic quotes" settings for php as I was before.
I am going to try to find a BOINC webpage that talks about this. If you know anything about this issue post something here.

Escaping of punctuation marks
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Yes. This is what I needed and it looks like it worked. Unfortunately I did not see your post right away because I had not have my account settings correct.