CS5.5 Mobile Publish (iOS) - Displaying Office Documents Possible?

Hey all,
I would like to make a brochare-ware type mobile app. Many markets do it these days, such as the car market, to show off their product.
I would like to show the users some office-esque documents without leaving the application. The document types would be word (.doc/.docx), powerpoint (.ppt/.pptx), Portable Document Format (.pdf), Excel (.xls, xlsx), images (.png, .jpg, etc), video and audio (in a flash-friendly f4v/flv/etc format).
What would be a bit annoying is if the user clicks a PDF link and is taken out of the app to load the PDF in a browser instance or ibooks or such. Same for the rest of the formats.
What should I expect as the behavior of an application that would like to show these formats?
In a native app (I am a native developer as well) I can just load these in a UIWebView and they'll display (for reading purposes only) just fine. I know iOS itself has no issue with any of those formats (outside flash needing to play f4v/flv content).
The location of these documents will be online. Each asset will be located on a webserver and that's how I plan to have the user fetch any of them.
Has anyone done anything like this before?
I do see a StageWebView class for AIR that states: "On devices in the mobile and extended mobile profiles, the StageWebView class uses the system web control provided by the device operating system."
Does this mean on iOS it will use a UIWebView and I can expect this will load all these documents as if it's a native app?

Hi, Did you ever find a solution? I need to do the same thing O_o

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