Behnt - sorry for the confusion here; we didn't intend for anyone to be confused or feel ripped off, obviously. We tried to make the requirements clear, but it's definitely still confusing to folks. If you can suggest any wording changes on our pages or the App Store that would have helped, we're interested in hearing about it.
MobileMe offers a free 60-day trial. By the time that free trial is up, we'll have had some time to work around some of the problems preventing folks from using one of the other free file-storage services that are available.
If you don't want to have to worry about remembering to shut off the MobileMe trial, we're hearing that folks have been using
bingodisk.com quite successfully; that service is $20/year instead of $100/year.
If none of those options work for you, you should contact Apple - at the very least, let them know that the option to do a wired sync would be helpful to you.
Again, very sorry for the confusion and distress.