That's a good idea. In my case, I was able to solve the problem simply by doing a regular expression replace:
"\bapp1\b" with "app2"; of course this is high risk as "app1" was all over the place in my particular project. Also, the asset "xml" file needs to be renamed in app2 when copied to the adobe/config file to avoid a name collison (if one wants seperate app1 and app2 to work). For me, this all worked; however, I could easily envision a project where all that renaming would cause problems, hopefully ones that would be readily traceable. But thanks for the reply, it's always appreciated.