Replacing a comp of an Illustrator file that has several sublayers

Hey guys!
I'm working on a project for a big company, and they have sent me a huge bunch of files that I need to sort out. There are some After Effect projects, with each one containing 100+ links to various PSD's, AI's etc.
This is all animation sequences for international TV commercials. Therefore each animation sequence needs to be rendered to a specific language to suit the receiving country. Problem is, I've only been giving AI's and PSD's in English (though I have all the text edits in the other languages written down somewhere, to be manually replaced in those PSD's and AI's).
There are a lot of AI documents, each one with several groups and layers. And I discover these AI's have been imported into After Effects as a composition (retain layer size).
I tried to replace the text in one of the AI's to match one of the other languages like e.g. german, and then saved a copy of the AI file in the same folder as the original, but with the country code "DE" added to the AI file name. I then went to replace that one english AI file with my new german AI file in After Effects (hoping it would automatically update throughout the animation), but when I had to choose to replace as "Composition" instead of "Footage", "composition" was greyed out.
I then made a copy/backup of the original AI file, and gave it another name. Then I made my changes to the original one, leaving the AI file name intact. That worked. The problem still remains though; I have several languages for each AI file to edit, and for the sake of keeping everything organised, I was hoping I could just rename the edited AI file to match the country, and then do a replace in After Effects.
Is there any way to do this without screwing anything up in After Effects?
Thanks in advance, and I appreciate you took your time to read this

Hi Dave
Off topic: What an honour to have a Creative Cow forum legend answer my question That makes my day.
On topic: I could do that. And I thought about doing that. Thing is, this single AI file has roughly 20 text layers that needs to be replaced with foreign text. In the AE file I've been given, there's roughly 50-60 AI files that needs same treatment. And there's 50 ish comps and precomps (just for the english) and I need to output all of this to 15+ languages. I predict that the AE file will be bowing out due to the sheer amount of comps and things to keep track of. And so will I.
Maybe I just need to copy the AE file, and give each country it's own project. But then I would also have to make a country-specific folder for each AI file I encounter, copy the AI in there keeping the document name intact, make my edits, and then replace it in the country-specific AE project where it belongs... I'm treading water here aren't I...

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