Can I put the old trackpad/bl-keyboard in my new Air?

The subject says it all... I have been very dissatisfied with my latest 13" Macbook Air (I've owned one of each of the three models) for two reasons:
1. the buttonless trackpad kills me in Windows (I have Powerplan 7 in now but it's not as smooth IMHO)
2. Power button on the keyboard (who thought that would be a good idea, next to Delete??)
As I switched to Windows 7 64-bit on this machine after using OSX on the previous ones, I wrongly assumed that the lack of keyboard backlighting was another example of Apple's crappy support for Microsoft's OS.
Only today, when I installed PP7 to fix my trackpad nightmares and add the backlit keyboard, did I discover that I don't have a backlit keyboard anymore!!!
Thanks, Apple, for sucking so hard. The Air is the flagship, and you've hobbled the two primary user input components.
So, the question.. as a technie who is completely comfortable with ripping my computers apart...
Can I replace the trackpad and keyboard with ones from the previous generation Air, to regain this lost functionality?
REAL answers only, please. It's hard enough to find any useful information online anymore with all opinions one must surf through to find facts.
Thanks!

malice604 wrote:
Only today, when I installed PP7 to fix my trackpad nightmares and add the backlit keyboard, did I discover that I don't have a backlit keyboard anymore!!!
So you bought the MacBook Air before reading the technical specifications of the machine and then blame Apple but proceed to call yourself a techie in the next sentence? Now this is screen shot material!
However to answer your question, there's no connection point for the backlit keyboard on the logic board. So that wouldn't work. I'm not 100% sure on the trackpad relocation, however. With the way it's machine pressed into the bottom case I don't see how you could safely remove it and reinstall it with just "hand force."

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