here's my php code:
echo ("<a href=# onClick=changePicture(\"". $picture[$i]["file_name"] ."\" , \" ". $picture[$i]["description"]."\")>pic $i</a>  \n");
which for example will print out:
<a href=# onClick=changePicture("media/picture/2-0.jpg" , this is a picture )>pic 0</a>  
without those nice backslashed quotations i expelicitlly wrote in. what's going on? my first pair of quotes work fine! grrrr..!