Woohoo! So here was a weird one (I love these).
I recently came across an issue where all the images for SharePoint 2007 were not being displayed (little ‘x’ instead of image).
After much investigation it turned out that the problem was with the IIS Metabase file, what had happened was that the web application pool for the web application had been changed (not just the account) and although the metabase.xml file was updated with the new web application pool not ALL of the settings in the metabase.xml file were updated; specifically the account that was specified to have access to the _layouts folder and the _layouts/images folders.
So, a quick edit of the metabase file to update the old web application pool with the new web application pool resolved the issue.
If this helps you then my work is done :)
Note: Obviously if you change the web application through the CA site then you would not have this issue ;)
Regards,
Doug “bobTheBuilder” McCusker
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