[translations] Basic Drupal6 translation questions

[Martin Stadler]

Hi!

I'm upgrading my project to Drupal 6 and I have a few questions  
regarding translations (UI).

So I downloaded a translation from drupal.org and extracted all the  
files to their corresponding module directories. Unfortunately, the  
German translation is only a release candidate at the moment so there  
might be a stable version soon. How would I I update the translation  
then?

     "Note that the .po files within a translation package are  
imported automatically (if available) when new modules or themes are  
enabled, or as new languages are added."

Can I somehow manually trigger a new import?

My project is a kind of Drupal distribution with a few contrib modules  
being part of that. I don't use the sites/all/modules directory for  
these so the end-user is still able to keep track of her own modules  
but putting them in the main modules directory makes it harder to keep  
core up to date and to distinguish between core and contrib. So I put  
all my contrib modules in a subdirectory (modules/myproject/ 
contribmodule1). This works great but is this supported by the  
translation importer?

Thanks,
Martin