AS2 loaded to AS3 mobile project

Hello, I have a problem witch I hope someone could shed some light on.
I have about 100 AS2 swfs that were created long time ago... each is a simple 1 screen animation with few buttons.
I need to build an AS3 android application using those swfs. So I opened an air android project and imported the swfs with simple loaders.
When I run the application in flash cs6 it works fine and the AS2 swfs are fully functional, but when I deploy the app to a tablet the AS2 swfs do not work correctly... the buttons are not clickable and the animation is running in loops ignoring the stop() function and every other code in the swf.
I figured that the code stored in those swfs cannot be read by the tablet and there for it's not working...
I am realy trying to avoid rebuilding those swfs in AS3 because it will take me about a month!
Is there any way to solve this problem?
Or does anybody know a specific reasone for the problem so I can try to find a solution?
Any help would be appreciated!

i don't there's any work-around. the air player does not include avm1.

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Subject: load AS2 swf into AS3 swf problem
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