Relative links to pdf's

Hi guys
I've created a project www.officey.co.uk which works great online but i need to put this on a CD for users with no internet access. I've opened up the fxp in flash Builder and added the pdf folder to "assets"
I then changed all links to the pdf's from
navigateToURL( new URLRequest( encodeURI(" "http://www.officey.co.uk/assets/pdf/companypresentation.pdf")), "_self");
navigateToURL( new URLRequest( encodeURI("assets/pdf/companypresentation.pdf")), "_self");
When I run the project, they are still opening up from the http location.
Any ideas?

If any programmer out there is willing to look at this project it would be appreciated...thanks

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