Doh! The solution was to set ascii_chars=yes. That was it. Just goes to show, no matter how long I look for an answer, I'm bound to find it the minute after sending my query to a mailing list. :) Apologies to all.
-- Katie Bechtold http://www.katie-and-rob.org/katie/
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