Case-insensitive REPLACE in MySQL?

Question

MySQL runs pretty much all string comparisons under the default collation... except the REPLACE command. I have a case-insensitive collation and need to run a

Answer 1

I went with http://pento.net/2009/02/15/case-insensitive-replace-for-mysql/ (in fvox's answer) which performs the case insensitive search with case sensitive replacement and without changing the case of what should be unaffected characters elsewhere in the searched string.

N.B. the comment further down that same page stating that CHAR(255) should be changed to VARCHAR(255) - this seemed to be required for me as well.