2010 not quite ready for translation

I’m trying to customize upcoming WP 3.0 to my needs.
I’d like to note that some words and phrases in this theme are not translatable in “regular way” via *.po:

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etc.

It seems that they are hardcoded in functions.php(?)
I would appreciate any tips on how to deal with that in order to avoid overwriting on the next automatic update. Will it be fixed or I’m missing the point here?

Cheers,
Marius