Problems integrating Wordpress by requiring wp-load.php

Question

I can't use the same DB as my Wordpress install, so using "define('QA_WORDPRESS_INTEGRATE_PATH', '/PATH/TO/WORDPRESS');" to integrate with Wordpress is out of the question.

I simply want to make use of a few WP functions to get the WP menus in my custom QA theme.

Adding require '../wp-load.php'; to QA's index.php works great. However, all input seems to be escaped when submitting a question or answer.

For example:

Joe's test question.

Turns into:

Joe\'s test question.

Why does requiring wp-load.php do this? Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to resolve this?

 

Comments

Looks like WP uses magic quotes on GET and POST vars and Q2A "fixes" this  ( qa-base.php lines 203 - 220).

I can hack qa-base.php to use the function qa_undo_wordpress_quoting, but is there any other way?