How do I get the date from a datepicker that doesn't display the entire date?

How do I get the date from a datepicker that doesn't display the entire date?

I have a datepicker initialized as such:

$('.DatePicker').datepicker({ constrainInput: true, format: 'm/d', onSelect: OnDatePickerMonthDayOnlyChanged });

function OnDatePickerMonthDayOnlyChanged(dateText, inst)
{
    var element = $(this);
    var selectedDate = element.datepicker('getDate');
}

The problem that I'm having is that if I pick a date in a previous year (e.g. 1/4/2003), it gets formatted without the year in my datepicker (e.g. "1/4").  It appears that since there is no year displayed in the textbox, it just uses the current year when I call getDate.  So datepicker('getDate') would return 1/4/2010 instead of 1/4/2003.

I'm on jQuery UI 1.7.1.  Am I doing something wrong?

Jon