Hey, thanks! Still in progress though. Since I posted this I haven't made much progress in the amount of zones but have in the file size.
When I posted these the file sizes were anywhere from 50-300mb each. This would have been a download larger than 20gig when all the zones were done. Way too much.
Did some testing and got them down to around 30% of that large file size. Then, thanks to
this thread I was able to get them down even smaller. Now, for instance, instead of the najena_obj file being 154mb it's 14mb. Much better.
So far I'm about halfway through going back and resaving all the zones I had done prior.