the image was indeed in the theme directory and i tried a full path before, but it still didn’t work. however, placing the image in the index of the forum and doing a full path to it worked, oddly enough. thanks very much for the help!
My tiny modification:
<div class="header-wrapper">
<div class="header pagewidth">
<!-- TITLE -->
<a href="<?php bb_uri(); ?>"><img src="/images/forumlogo.png" alt="Forums" title="Forums" /></a>
<?php if ( bb_get_option('description') ) : ?><h2><?php bb_option('description'); ?></h2><?php endif; ?>
<!-- END TITLE -->
</div>
</div>
Edit: forgot to mention that adding the width=”325px” height=”90px” in the img tag, still doesn’t display the image.