Qsys new component - file path keeps changing

I was hired as a consultant to help get a company out of this kind of mess (in 11.1). They were using component editor to create their own components. Finally, since all confidence was lost in this tool, and given the statement by one of their gurus that component editor was meant to just get the user started, I decided to isolate the design from the Qsys environment by adding a bridge to export the avalon bus signals. This way the user components simply hook up to the inteface outside of Qsys. You can put a separate bridge for each user component to keep things nice. The only issue is you have to add the base addresses to your C code since it won't be done by qsys.