Cast 3 Concatenated Fields as Date

Hi,
I have the following requirement. On the contact page there is a drop down field named Starting month of months (Jan to Dec). On the report i need to show Starting Date column, which is a concatenated field of 01 as date, Value in the Starting month field and current year.
For Ex: If user select Feb , on the report in Starting Date column it should display 01-Feb-2011. This can be achieved using combination of concat functions. But i also need another column to show if starting date is passed or not based on Starting Date coulumn and current date. To do that i need to cast the concatenated field (i.e Starting month) to Date.
But when i try to cast starting date as DATE, i get a error message. The sample cast function i have used is "CAST(REPLACE(CAST(YEAR(CURRENT_DATE) AS CHARACTER) ||'-'|| CASE WHEN Contact.PICK_10='Jan' THEN '01' ELSE Contact.PICK_10 END || '-' || '01', ' ', '') AS DATE)" .
Does anyone knows how to cast strings as Date? Any workarounds on this issue is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Mark, you are not alone.
We also encountered this error using XI 3.0. We received the "Driver is not capable" error message when including date dimensions from a universe built on a BEx query. Looking at the universe, the date dimensions themselves were date fields, but all the date keys were listed as characters.
Our fix:
Replace all the date dimensions with the date keys listed below the dimensions. This is a little tricky because when you add the key into your webi query, it automatically adds the dimension. You have to manually remove the dimensions from the webi query after adding the key, and your report should run without the "Driver not capable" error message.
This is a serious bug, because now we have to train users building the webi queries to delete the date dimension. We cannot hide the dimension in the universe because it will also hide the key.
I guess another fix could be creating a new Dimension in the universe, and copying the properties from the key field into the new dimension...but if you have many dates, it's a big pain.
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