Adobe AIR Native installation + DRM issues.

Hello Friends,
We are looking at creating an application for a client whom is very concerned about piracy. They have a third party application which essentially injects DRM code into an windows exe. We created a demo air app which in turn was converted into an exe thanks to the native installer feature in Flash Builder for AIR and the third party worked fine by injecting after the DRM code.
However we realized that in the installation directory we can find the swf for the app, so essentially if we install another Air app and swap the SWF's we can actually get the content and circumvent the DRM.
I am wondering if there is anything we can do to prevent that (prevent the swf working within another AIR installation) and make it a little harder to crack.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
+LA
www.lordalexworks.com

I actually wanted to clarify a few things on this question in hope of still gettign an answer.
Apparently MDM Zinc does a good of creating a exe that can then later be succesfuly injected with DRM requiring an activation code to be able to install the software. It seems the swf gets converted to something else therefore injecting the DRM is more effective.
However I still want to do thid via AIR, the problem being is that the swf can be found in the installation and can be placed in another AIR app to circunvent the instalation code.
Any thoughts are apreacited.
+LA

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