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You could leave an empty .emacs file on your main file, and then M-x
load-file RET filename to load the .emacs file from the directory, but
that would probably be more trouble then it's worth.

I wonder if you did something like:

(load-file "./.emacs")

in your .emacs, would that work?

-Dan