Wasn't it you who said "I don't want to have to store as a CHAR or VARCHAR and have to write my own date handling routines in my app"? rowname.year and rowname.month sounds a lot like writing your own date handling routines.
I suppose you go back to doing whatever you were doing before you used the service. Annoying yes, but it's not like they're hosting your mail and you have to rush to find a new host.