I can add one more sample of these symptoms.
The only oddity I’ve been able to find through phpinfo is that it reports the mysql Client API version as 3.23.58, which I find odd as I have mysql 4.1.x on the (linux) server. magic_quotes are off. This is with php 4.3.10, WP 2.1, bbP .75
‘ and ” each show up with a single backslash in front of them, but if I put a backslash in the text in front of ‘ or ” it yields 3 backslashes and the ‘/” I don’t know if this double backslash is expected or if it might help find the problem.
Thanks for helping to track this down.