i\'m still new to the redirectrule thing from htaccess and have successfully redirected my pages so that the pretty URL shows up, but is there a way to redirect the images s
I am not sure this will solve the problem, but instead of modifying all the links you could use the BASE element in each page to define a base URI:
From http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.4:
When present, the BASE element must appear in the HEAD section of an HTML document, before any element that refers to an external source. The path information specified by the BASE element only affects URIs in the document where the element appears.
Examples:
<HEAD>
<BASE href="ImagesBasePath">
</HEAD>
Or just:
<HEAD>
<BASE href="/">
</HEAD>