Flash Player standalone, hardware accel & licensing

Hi everybody.
I'm going to achieve my current project of a standalone app developed with the Flex Open Source SDK. I post my questions here because they are related to flah player. In fact, this work will be published as an old-fashioned interactive cd-rom...
My first problem is about hardware acceleration: since flash player 10.1 or something like that it's enabled by default, but i'm experiencing bugs with it... at least on my computer, which has a relatively old integrated graphic card, with the hardware acceleration, i have a realy poor display in fullscreen mode. This problem is documented here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html
Is there any way to disable hardware acceleration by default on the published CD-ROM ?? Otherwise I will need to publish it with some troubleshooting documentation, but i don't like it...
Other question: what do I need to know about publishing such a CD-ROM and licensing & copyright issues ? Do I need to include some README file about it ? (note: i'm not using Flash Builder to develop this project)
Thanks

Are there no answers to my questions ?? Maybe i'm not in the rightplace, if so, where should I ask ? Can't find any informations elsewhere, i'm stuck here...
thx

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