WordPress theme options

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knew of a quick fix for an issue I’m having with a textarea within a theme options page.

When I save the content within a textarea, wordpress seems to add a back slash \ to certain characters. Each time I save an additional slash is added.

For example if i were to save

href=”http://google.com” when saved this would appear like href=\”http://google.com\”

Then wish each additional save the backslashes would duplicate so i could after time end up with href=\\\\\\\\”http://google.com\\\\\\\\”

The same applies for a few other characters.

Has anyone encoutered this before ? and if so do you know of a magical cure.

Thanks