Hi Paul,
MobiOne does not provide a way to package app data outside of the web-content area. I have seen some iOS hacks that require low level coding and building outside of MobiOne’s support. I also tried an OSS framework a while back but it was crap-source and wasted tons of time on it.
One approach is to extract your db as a json formatted file that is bundled into your app as an additional file. Then in your app use javascript to load the db on 1st startup.