At this point, I don't know, because I didn't go and look at the file on the server first. Instead, I took my backup file from July 14, and made that change, then uploaded it. Here's the string from the backup file. Since taking the slahes out didn't fix the problem, maybe it's something else with that string:

"Someone from the ip address '\$ip' registered the Login Name '\$Loginname'. The password for this Login Name is '\$pass'";

Maybe we won't figure it out! Thanks - Tony