Well, after a bit of tweaking i DID get the while loop to work. However, the while loop only does the number values of the array.
For instance, if $fetch = mysql_fetch_array($query);
The while loop only removed the slashes from $fetch['1'], $fetch['2'], etc..
However, if I try to call it via $fetch['table_name'], it still has slashes.
I did attempt to use foreach($fetch as $key => $value), but that does not seem to strip the slashes at all.... any ideas?