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I'm not sure about address coding, but my personal experience with some addresses in Scotland would suggest that you are right in that short-cuts have been made in the coding of street numbers.
Yes I think the api is intentionally crippled. Datawise, MapPoint is a bargain, so I think they have to intentionally restrict what you can do with it (the suppliers would ask for more money for more flexibility).
It is possible to programmatically computer the longitude and latitude coordinate from a Location object. There's an article on this site that tells you how to do it. It is in VB6, but I've successfully ported it to C++ in the past.
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