What are you doing to load them? In an INSERT command, AutoCAD will automatically look in the current drawing folder for a drawing if it doesn't find a Block by the given name already in the current drawing, but it won't look there for loading AutoLisp files unless you direct it there.
If you use the APPLOAD command and navigate to the current drawing folder to find them, do they load? If so, it's not a problem with the files, but with the method of loading them.
If you are loading them via something like acaddoc.lsp, then either:
1) the current drawing folder needs to be spelled out in the (load) functions, or
2) the current drawing folder needs to be included in the list of Support File Search Paths [in the Files tab in the OPTIONS Dialog Box].
But do you want to put every drawing folder into the Support File Search Path list, and/or spell out every drawing folder in (load) functions in acaddoc.lsp? I would keep such things in one support folder of some kind, which is in that list, not in individual drawing folders. Is there some reason for having them in drawing folders?
Kent Cooper, AIA