Modifiying an swf layer with After Effect

Greetings,
I'm very new to after effects and have a question regarding an exsisting project that has a swf layer.
We want to increase the time play from 6 second to 48 seconds. No problem with that.. However within the
animation there is a swf that plays for six seconds. I want to keep the last frame up for the next 42 seconds.
(It's a logo). How would I do that without messing up the 6 second animation i.e. change it's duration .
In flash I would simply adda timer or extend the klast key frame way out.
I don't have the original FLA file, just the After Effects project.
Hope I'm clear.
thanks
joe

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:12:16 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Textured Text with after effects
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