backslashes are being deleted by php function stripslashes(). If I don't put it there, there would be a slash before every " or ', would be even more annoying.
Hm, I would just reinstall. I had no problem with the patch;)
I noticed you cant have a folder with SCpatches in your SC directory. The new patch looked them up instead and it went wrong. Just moved them and dl'ed again and all was fine