I have a class assigned to an unordered list as such: <ul class="blah"> but when ckeditor opens up the code, it removes the class assignment as such : <ul>
The content is being fed via PHP from a mySQL database. Anyone have a clue why this is happening???

That's probably the Advanced
That's probably the Advanced Content Filter (ACF) stripping undefined code. More on this here.
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