No, you're doing the right thing -- the client will only load those zones that come with it. I get around it with a special version of the 0.5.5 server that I've modified to use a program I've written called ZoneProxy, and I run ZoneProxy when I run my client. When I want to zone to a zone I've made with OpenZone, my server basically taps ZoneProxy on the shoulder and asks it to back up one of the EQ zones and replace it with my own before it tells the client to load it (my DB has an extra column called "thirdparty" that lets the server know when to do this). Eventually we'll have our own client and none of this will be an issue.
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