I'm not sure I'm understanding your situation completely, but if you have a name server in the same domain, you can't just edit the zone. You have to change the name servers at the registrar. The registrar then pushes it up to CIRA which pushes this down to it's name servers.
On the other hand, if you are just talking about the IPs that are displayed in a 'whois' lookup, I don't believe those are not significant. They are typically cached when the name server records are created and are informational only. Actual DNS resolution relies on resolving the name server by name in real-time, not the IP is in the whois record.