Hi again Kat
Hmmm, quite a conundrum you have there, eh?
Well, there is one other possibility. Similar to the number
42, you probably won't like it much. But here goes anyway.
Assuming you are the person who has final say over the
project, meaning that you are the only one that generates and
distributes and the others are simply contributors, you could use
something like ReplacEm or FAR to perform a small post generation
process of performing a search and replace. You would search only
the folders for the desired string looking for ../# and eliminate
the ../ or possibly even ../../ or ../../../ depending on how many
folder levels you have.
Besides that, I'm about out of ideas.
Sincerely... Rick