Possible to disabling certificate checking in WM6.5?

Is there a way to disable certificate checking/validation in WM6.5? From what I'm reading, the tweaks that used to work for PPC 2003 and WM5 no longer work in WM6x. I have searched and searched and the solution to this problem still evades me.

Our Exchange administrator has me testing our VM Exchange 2007. I had to add HOST entries on both my PC and WM phone. Our cert is a wildcard cert.

Thanks!


Tested:
1) Manually creating - HKLM\Comm\Tcpip\Hosts\webmail.xxxxxx.com
2) Software created host change (same registry change created as above)
3) Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\ActiveSync\Pa rtners secure=0

Edit: No creating a new DNS record because of how the exchange 2007 is setup to use our production DNS record for webmail.