Replaced scenes.

Curses! You sound like a extremely solid source on this but you've never seen the scenes I can remember. D'oh!
I've considered that they might have been from another Woody film but I could've sworn that they were from 'Sleeper'and I've seen almost every other film of his. The reason I was so sure was that I once had a videotape with both 'Bananas' and 'Sleeper' on it (taken from a TV season of Woody Allen films) and I watched it loads of times.
When I saw 'Sleeper' again I was expecting the scenes to materialise and was shocked when they didn't turn up.
Not to doubt your knowledge in any way, 'scrabbler 1' ..... but can anyone else help?

Thanks very much for taking the time to reply. Yes, I was thinking that that might be the case too but I bought the "Bananas" DVD for someone a few months ago. I watched it with them and the scenes that I remember were not in it for certain.

Damn, you'd love them! I can see the scenes in my mind's eye but I'd love to see them again properly, on a screen.
My guess is that the print that I was familar with was a Europe only print. Both you and 'scrabbler1' sound like you live in the U.S. (under the Bush junta!?)while 'ddrury' and I - who do remember the scenes - live in the U.K. (I'd say something about Blair too but I don't think it'll be too long before he's forced out by the Labour Party).
Or maybe it was a "rogue print"; a rough cut that somehow made its way over here? Like a promo copy of an album that was sent to DJs before a final running order was agreed?
I tried to describe the scenes as best I could and I know, for absolutely sure, that they featured the great Diane Keaton. What puzzles me is not just that they were "cut" (although that would be strange enough because the scenes were VERY funny)but that, when I saw the later print, they were "replaced" by the shaving scene. Yet, to say that they were replaced is probably a misnomer because, judging from what 'scrabbler1' says, the shaving scene has always been included in the American edition.
I'm going to keep trying to find out about what led to this state of affairs. I left a posting on the 'Woody Allen' page itself about this and I'm thinking of other people to write to in order to get an explanation. Yes, there are other more important things to worry about, for sure, but I need to get an answer about this.

Lucky you; both for seeing the replaced scenes...and for living in Edinburgh. That's a gorgeous city. My cousin lives near Hibs' ground, Easter Road.
Yes, it's a head-scratcher. It's interesting that you say that the print still had a credit for the "woman in the mirror". I've just fished out my copy of the Faber & Faber book "Woody Allen On Woody Allen: In conversation with Stig Bjorkman". Sleeper is seen off in the space of a mere 3 pages and with only 8 questions asked but one of those few questions refers to the shaving/woman in the mirror scene. It does seem that the original scene is of the woman in the mirror and that what I've referred to as the "Replaced Scenes" were replacements that were themselves later replaced; that the film has now gone back to how it first appeared (or at least, how it was supposed to first appear). Still, I greatly miss the dinner/card trick scenes and I could live without the woman in the mirror, if I needed to do so.
I've also found my paperback copy of Eric Lax's biography of Woody, published by Vintage in 1992. Page 334:

"During the editing of Sleeper, Woody and..."(the editor, Ralph)"...Rosenblum each sat at a Moviola in Rosenblum's office, looking at pieces of film over and over again, trying to find the ones that played in the best relation to the others. They cut, spliced, respliced, and hoped for luck. Woody worked on one sequence, Rosenblum on the following. As each finished, he showed the other what he had done and they collaborated on changes".

The text then goes on to say that Rosenblum believed Woody to be different than other writers in that he was always willing to throw stuff out of a film, during the edit, and Rosenblum often had to fight to keep obviously funny stuff in the final cut.
Lax's book suggests that this was the first film in which Woody really edited with great purpose. Maybe the quote from above gives a plausible reason why two cuts might leak their way out to the public by accident? Maybe the woman in the mirror was Woody's cut and the dinner/card trick cut was Rosenblum's - featuring scenes of Woody being funny that everyone would find funny...except Woody himself?
I don't know. I'm just surmising because I haven't got any firm evidence as to why there's two cuts of this magnificent film.
By the way, on that Ted Turner channel, TCM, this Thursday evening, there's a double bill of "Bananas" followed by "Sleeper". Maybe viewers will get lucky and be treated with the dinner/card trick scenes? Somehow I doubt it. I don't receive TCM but I gather that it tends to show buffed-up, new prints of films, rather than older prints. My guess is that the screening will be of the woman in the mirror, but you never know.

I've just checked it out. Notice that the poster on Amazon was from the UK whereas the posters above, who are from the USA, have never seen the dinner scene at all.

Its on Netflix has all the scenes