In reply to herbmiller.

It's closed because every time we leave those open, people post in them asking for help instead of listing broken things. So while I'd love to leave it for people to comment, it makes it harder for anyone who wants a quick 'This is what happened, this is why, this is what we know.'

I do welcome improvements on how to phrase it better though I would actually suggest you use this instead: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/no_texturize_shortcodes

Just tell WP not to texturize your code :) Then you don't mess up wptexturize for everything else that needs or relies on it.