Editor is writing alot of unwanted content on submit - //////

If I place my html code directly into mysql it shows up fine in the editor.  for example

<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">This</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">is cool &nbsp;&nbsp;<img alt="" src="http://www.quickjump.mobi/img/header.png" style="width: 400px; height: 58px;" /></span></strong></span></p>

but when I go to submit this is the code it writes this!  with all the \   So my editor freezes up again upon reload.

    <span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#2f4f4f;\">This</span> <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">is cool &nbsp;&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.quickjump.mobi/img/header.png\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 58px;\" /></span></strong></span></p>

I have done a little research and come up with stripslash?  Does this get put into the ckeditor code somewhere?

Thank you in advance!

Brian