It has been a year, you probably have solved this, but someone may still need.
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$fulltext = stripslashes( $row['introtext']."\n".$row['bodytext'] );
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$fulltext = stripslashes( $row['introtext'] );
seems to work for me.
Make sure you backup your original file so that you can go back. Also, one could probably make a $_CONF variable and add the option of having whole body or just the intro.