stripslashes(); not working properly

[Monkee_Of_Evil]

hey...been a while since I've posted anything but was wondering if i could get some help. I'm re-coding some portal software for a message board and i need to strip the slashes out of it. I tried using stripslashes($string); but it doesn't work on that page, but it works in the forum software...I'm completley baffled by it..here's the code I was using:

while ($news = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {

    $readmore = "";
    $tid = "";
    $author = $news[author];
    $tid = $news[tid];
    $date = $news[dateline];
    $formatdate = gmdate("$date_format",$date + ($timeoffset*3600));
    $subject = $news[subject];
    $subject = stripslashes($subject);
    $message = stripslashes($news[message]);

[eriksmoen]

for help/advice... more code is needed :p

[Monkee_Of_Evil]

sorry. here ya go:

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM xmb_forums WHERE fid='$news_fid'");
$forum = mysql_fetch_array($query);

$query = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT * FROM xmb_smilies");
while ($smiley = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
	if ($smiley_list == "") $smiley_list = "$smiley[code]||+||$smiley[url]";
	else $smiley_list .= "||-||$smiley[code]||+||$smiley[url]";
}
$smiley_array = explode("||-||", $smiley_list);

$query = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT * FROM xmb_posts WHERE fid = '$news_fid' GROUP BY (tid) ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT 0,$news_list_this_many");
while ($news = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {

    $readmore = "";
    $author = $news['author'];
    $tid = $news['tid'];
    $date = $news['dateline'];
    $formatdate = gmdate("$date_format",$date + ($timeoffset*3600));
    $subject = $news['subject'];
    $subject = stripcslashes($subject);
	$news['message'] = stripslashes($news['message']);
    $message = $news['message'];
    $message = postify($message, $smileyoff, $bbcodeoff, $forum[allowsmilies], $forum[allowhtml], $forum[allowbbcode], $forum[allowimgcode]);

// Setup smilies
while (list($IndexValue, $smiley_sect) = each ($smiley_array))
{
	$smiley_x = explode("||+||", $smiley_sect);
	$code = $smiley_x[0];
	$img = $smiley_x[1];
	$message = str_replace("$code", "<img src=\"$smdir/$img\" border=\"0\">", $message);
}


$querynext = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM xmb_posts WHERE tid='$tid'")

or die(mysql_error());

$comments = mysql_result($querynext, 0);

$querynext = mysql_query("SELECT m.username FROM xmb_members m WHERE username = '$author'") or

die(mysql_error());

$comments -= 1;
if ($comments == "1") $comment_txt = "comment";
else $comment_txt = "comments";
if ($comments > 0) $comments = "<a href=\"viewthread.php?tid=$tid\">$comments $comment_txt</a> |";
else $comments = "";


if($news[icon] != "") {
	$icon = "<img src=\"$smdir/$news[icon]\">";
} else {
	$icon = "<img src=\"$smdir/$dgif\">";
}


$thread_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM xmb_threads WHERE tid='$tid'");
$thread = mysql_fetch_array($thread_query);

if($thread[closed] == "yes") {
	$postcomment = "Closed |";
} else {
	$postcomment = "<a href=\"post.php?action=reply&fid=$news_fid&tid=$tid\">Reply</a> |";
}


?>

thats whe whole news.php script I'm working with. This file is included in portal.php which has calls to xmb.php and headers.php which have all the other variable delcarations and functions and such. All the other functions work properly in the rest of the website except in this one file. Even stripslashes() and addslashes() work properly in functions.php and every other file that uses it.