The Zero Hour convention is nothing new, Generals supported it too. There is no filename requirement of INI files in the 'Object' or 'MappedImages' folders, never has been.
All you have to remember with your mod is that your INI file, provided it is located appropriately, constitutes the 'most up to date' info and is read last, overriding whatever the game has already assembled into its arrays.
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