note: magic_quotes_gpc & runtime are both disabled (0).

data for a jpeg:
original length: 2061
after addslashes: 2229
after strip: 2061
after select before strip: 2061
after select after strip: 4

code that produced the error (was tracking the bug down):

        $mylink  =  mysql_connect( "localhost", "mike", "mypass");
        mysql_select_db( "mydb",$mylink);
        $myqry  =  mysql_query( "delete  from  thumbs  where  oid  =  999999",$mylink);
        $fh  =  fopen( "1a.jpg", "r");
        $pic  =  fread($fh,filesize( "1a.jpg"));
        $mypic  =  addslashes($pic);
        $pic2  =  stripslashes($mypic);
        $pics  =  strlen($pic);
        $mypics  =  strlen($mypic);
        $pic2s  =  strlen($pic2);
        $myqry  =  mysql_query( "insert  into  thumbs  (oid,thumb)  values  ('999999','$mypic')",$mylink);
        $myqry  =  mysql_query( "select  *  from  thumbs  where  oid  =  '999999'",$mylink);
        $myarr  =  mysql_fetch_array($myqry);
        $mypic2  =  $myarr[ "thumb"];
        $mypic2s  =  strlen($mypic2);
        $mypic3  =  stripslashes($mypic2);
        $mypic3s  =  strlen($mypic3);