Change ODBC DSN in Application KO?

I am learning Authorware 7. I used the Application Knowledge
Object to create a quiz with login and results tracking via ODBC.
It worked fine and automatically created an Access database. I
replicated the database structure in MySQL and created an ODBC DSN
for the MySQL database. I've looked around in Authorware, but I
can't find a way to tell the KO to use a different ODBC connection.
If I can.... I'll be happy.

From Macromedia Authorware email support, I was told it is
not possible to change the ODBC connection within an Application
knowledge object, but I can change it within a Quiz knowledge
object. I'll follow that path instead.

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