diff --git a/user/super/com/google/gwt/emul/java/lang/String.java b/user/super/com/google/gwt/emul/java/lang/String.java
index 197e5cb..e404e09 100644
--- a/user/super/com/google/gwt/emul/java/lang/String.java
+++ b/user/super/com/google/gwt/emul/java/lang/String.java
@@ -516,12 +516,13 @@
     return this.replace(RegExp(regex, "g"), String.fromCharCode(to));
   }-*/;
 
-  public String replace(CharSequence from, CharSequence to) {
-    // Escape regex special characters from literal replacement string.
-    String regex = from.toString().replaceAll("([/\\\\\\.\\*\\+\\?\\|\\(\\)\\[\\]\\{\\}])",
-        "\\\\$1");
-    return replaceAll(regex, to.toString());
-  }
+  // TODO(jat): fails on Safari 2 -- to be fixed for 1.5RC1
+//  public String replace(CharSequence from, CharSequence to) {
+//    // Escape regex special characters from literal replacement string.
+//    String regex = from.toString().replaceAll("([/\\\\\\.\\*\\+\\?\\|\\(\\)\\[\\]\\{\\}])",
+//        "\\\\$1");
+//    return replaceAll(regex, to.toString());
+//  }
   
   /**
    * Regular expressions vary from the standard implementation. The
diff --git a/user/test/com/google/gwt/emultest/java/lang/StringTest.java b/user/test/com/google/gwt/emultest/java/lang/StringTest.java
index 53fc23a..48dcb5c 100644
--- a/user/test/com/google/gwt/emultest/java/lang/StringTest.java
+++ b/user/test/com/google/gwt/emultest/java/lang/StringTest.java
@@ -326,9 +326,9 @@
     assertEquals("dog food", dogFood.replace('\u0120', ' '));
     String testStr = String.valueOf(new char[] {'\u1111', 'B', '\u1111', 'B', '\u1111', 'B'});
     assertEquals("ABABAB", testStr.replace('\u1111', 'A'));
-    assertEquals("foobar", hideFromCompiler("bazbar").replace("baz", "foo"));
-    assertEquals("$0bar", hideFromCompiler("foobar").replace("foo", "$0"));
-    assertEquals("+1", hideFromCompiler("*[)1").replace("*[)", "+"));
+//    assertEquals("foobar", hideFromCompiler("bazbar").replace("baz", "foo"));
+//    assertEquals("$0bar", hideFromCompiler("foobar").replace("foo", "$0"));
+//    assertEquals("+1", hideFromCompiler("*[)1").replace("*[)", "+"));
   }
 
   public void testReplaceAll() {