No security on mySql database - help!

After spending the last two weeks feverishly learning and coding php & mySql, I'm ready to go live and have discovered that my Hostpro Virtual Server (Used to be Vservers? never mind...) "doesn't support password-protecting individual databases". I thought it strange that I didn't need any user/pass pairs to access the db during development, but figured I'd sort that out later. What a bonehead, eh? Now it's "later", and I don't seem to have a way to control users or access levels. Can anyone suggest a workaround besides just dropping my pages into an .htaccess -protected directory?