Can I run Palm Desktop on a flash drive?

I work in an organization where I work on different computers in three different locations, as well as my own laptop and desktop at home. I cannot take my laptop with me to the different offices but I can carry a flash drive. I cannot load software on the work computers without incurring the wrath of the IT gods. Can I run Palm Desktop 6.2 and hot synch from a flash drive so I am not trying to synch from the whole batch of computers?
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