Sven:
The behavior of [foo] expansion in regular expressions depends on your
locale. In the traditional Unix C locale, [A-Z] is
[ABCD...], but in other, newer, fancy-shmancy locales, characters are
sorted in dictionary order, so [A-Z] is annoyingly
[AaBbCcDd...], which is probably not what you want.

So you can set LC_ALL to C before running sed(1)
and you should be good to go. This is probably the difference between the
different distributions: different locales.

You could also use named character classes. I believe that
[:upper:] means, in a nice locale-independent manner, all uppercase
letters, where as [:lower:] means all lowercase letters.
The brackets are part of the named character class, so if you want to specify
the equivalent of what you and I think that [A-Z] means, you would do
[[:upper:]].

Hope that helped, duder!

P.S. Your
Hackergotchi make me
think of of a European Nat. Which is not at
all a bad thing, I promise.