Trying to import drivers, anyone ever run across FOLDERS that are named with a .INF?

I am using the excellent driver import script from http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/automate-importing-and-creating-drivers-packages-in-sccm-2012-r2/ to try and import drivers from Dell and HP.
We got these drivers from the Dell driver CAB website, same with HP.
We've extracted these drivers and are now attempting to import them.  For the most part this works well, but there are some drivers that have a FOLDER in their path that has .INF in the FOLDER name. The script (I think) is seeing that folder name and
treating it as a driver .INF file, and failing to import it. An example is below.
These folders do have drivers in them, but the script is stopping before going any deeper, since it thinks these folders are actually driver files. Has anyone else run across this? I imagine you have if you're using the Dell and HP CAB files, which I suspect
many people are. Is there any reason these folders are named like this? Can I remove the .INF from the folder names and re-run the script? Will this cause any problems down the road?

It is kinda silly of the vendors to extract to folders in this way. You would never manually create a folder structure like that.
However, you are lucky to have the CAB file in the first place. More and more I am finding that there are no CAB files to download for certain models - I have to end up making my own driver package by importing individual drivers. It's a real pain.
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