IPad Won't Accept Gmail "Recent" Setting

I want to read my Gmail pop mail from a variety of different devices: my iPod Touch, my iPad, and my home desktop machine.
Google says that I should create a pop account with the username preceded by "recent:"
In your POP client settings, replace '[email protected]' in the 'Username' or 'Email' field with 'recent:[email protected]'
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47948
But neither my iPad nor my iPod Touch will permit that colon in the username field.
Can I get around this?
It should be fixed in a future update on iPad and iPhone software!

Aghhh... I'm about to throw my new Ipad at the wall.
After many frustrations I'm now suffering the same issue. Not only does Ipad not have a semicolin to create a Gmail POP account recent:username@gmail, even when you copy and past it from another application it says it's not a valid email address.
For many reasons IMAP doesn't suit my needs, were as I have successfully been using POP for many years.
Why hasn't this been fixed!

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