AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Consolidating Shortcut Folders

I've been creating my shortcut folders in the folder for my project drawings. So for project A, the shortcut folder is in Ashortcuts. The reason for doing this was to make it more intuitive for finding the shortcuts down the road and to avoid having project components located outside of the parent folder.

The problem is it is becoming a nuisance to browse to the project folder to set the working folder whenever I need to switch projects. I'm now considering consolidating all the shortcut folders into a main C3D projects folder (the way C3D was set up to work), though I'm not liking having to resort to redundant folders. For now it seems the lessor of the 2 evils.

I'd like to know what procedure to follow to make this work and what problems I'll encounter. I don't have a lot of projects at this time (maybe 20).

P.S. One of the big downsides to having the shortcuts stored outside of the project folder is when the project gets archived. Unless special precautions are taken, the shortcuts will be overlooked in the archiving process.