Is anybody reading my posts in this thread...? You're trying to use a replacement in a replacement...at my board even I have to use customimages/forumhome/image.gif and such to get things to work.
Like I said, it's not the best economical way of doing it. Using a variable is better because any changes to the imagespath are updated automatically.
It's a big hassle if everything was coded /images/.
I didnt change everything from {imagesfolder} to /images/, all i did was do that in the Category Strip Background Color and the Table Heading Background Color.