Changing directories for x-refs

Gday all,
Often I receive a set of drawings from an architect which are x-reffed all
over the place. This is a real pain as my civils are typically tied to the
survey, which is in real world co-ods, while the architect will have several
drawings at different rotations and co-ords. The base drawings I then use
from the architects have a number of x-refs at varying inserts & rotations,
and different paths to the files.
When I try to change the saved path and reload, I'm still left with the file
description on screem, and the x-refs still showing the original path in the
Xref Manager. Is there a way to do this without manually getting the insert
& rotation values and entering them?
I'm using Autocad 2000 on WinXP Home.
cheers