Basically in my master site I edited the defines.php file within the 
administrator/includes directory to actually get it to switch off those retarded magic quotes using this code below
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 //Emulate magic_quotes_gpc off
 if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
 $process = array(&$_GET, &$_POST, &$_COOKIE, &$_REQUEST);
 while (list($key, $val) = each($process)) {
 foreach ($val as $k => $v) {
 unset($process[$key][$k]);
 if (is_array($v)) {
 $process[$key][stripslashes($k)] = $v;
 $process[] = &$process[$key][stripslashes($k)];
 } else {
 $process[$key][stripslashes($k)] = stripslashes($v);
 }
 }
 }
 unset($process);
 }
 
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The problem is , when I create a slave site the magic quotes is switched off and will not complete the installation process. . . is there a way to bypass this as If I remove the code and switch them back on i'm worried it could potentially corrupt all my links in the master site.