Javascript RegEx replacing " -

i'm trying patch drupal panels module fix this nasty issue, makes ajax errorhandler unreadable. error handler has this:

// replace &lt; , &gt; < , >   error_text = error_text.replace("/&(lt|gt);/g", function (m, p) {      return (p == "lt")? "<" : ">";   }); 

i've tried 2 approaches:

adding

// replace &quot ' readability, goodness sakes, per   // http://drupal.org/node/1124042   error_text = error_text.replace(/"/g, "'"); 

modifying

// replace &lt; , &gt; < , >   error_text = error_text.replace("/&(lt|gt|quot);/g", function (m, p) {      return (p == "lt")? "<" : (p == "gt") ? ">" : "'";   }); 

yet neither has worked. little help?

edit: when printed out console (in ff4 or chrome) html entities not shown. resulting alert(""), however, looks so:

an error occurred @ /home/panels/ajax/editor/select-content/panel_context%3apage-faculty_page%3apage_faculty_page_panel_context/center.  error description: [ { "command": "settings", "argument": {    "basepath": "/home/", "admin_menu": { "margin_top": 1 }, "asu_webauth": { "callapp": >"home", quot;onlogouturl": "http://physics-dev.asu.edu" } } }, { "command": "css_files", "argument": [ { "file": "/home/modules/node/node.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/modules/system/defaults.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/modules/system/system.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/modules/system/system-menus.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/modules/user/user.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/admin_menu/admin_menu.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/cck/theme/content-module.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/ctools/css/ctools.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/date/date.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/filefield/filefield.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/office_hours/office_hours.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/og/theme/og.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/panels/css/panels.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/views_slideshow/contrib/views_slideshow_singleframe/views_slideshow.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/views_slideshow/contrib/views_slideshow_thumbnailhover/views_slideshow.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/misc/farbtastic/farbtastic.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/calendar/calendar.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/cck/modules/fieldgroup/fieldgroup.css?e", "media": "all" }, { "file": "/home/sites/all/modules/views/css/views.css?e", "media": "all" } ] }, { "command": "scripts", 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remove quotes around regex

  error_text = error_text.replace(/&(lt|gt|quot);/g, function (m, p) {      return (p == "lt")? "<" : (p == "gt") ? ">" : "'";   }); 

demo http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/mfmkc/