excluding the fact that gimp can remove it in 2 clicks and give you a transparent background, this kind of thing is doable but some parts like the glasses lenses will stay as it is. So you'll be only able to replace a single color, other than that I found out that not every browsers may support the feature...
Anyway, I'll keep trying, maybe I find some workaround to make it works on all browsers <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />