Bulk COPY end of copy delimiter

Today while trying to do a bulk COPY of data into a table, the process
aborted with the following error message:

ERROR: end-of-copy marker corrupt
CONTEXT: COPY tbl_logged_event, line 178519: "606447014,1492,2005-02-24
03:16:14,2005-02-23 20:27:48,win_applog,,error,adsmclientservice,nt
author..."

Googling the error, we found reference to the '\.' (backslash-period) being
an "end-of-copy marker".  Unfortunately, our data contains the
backslash-period character sequence.  Is there any know fix or workaround
for this condition?

We're using Postgresql 7.3.9 and also running tests on an 8.0.1 system.

Thanks in advance,
--- Steve
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