Images not showing in the News Item slideshow

Hej,

I am working on a new site and I am trying to get the news item slideshow working. The template is called sky and I am working with kanal_items. The portion of the template.php is:

/* Preprocess for the DDblock module */

/**
 * Override or insert variables into the ddblock_cycle_block_content templates.
 *   Used to convert variables from view_fields to slider_items template variables
 *
 * @param $vars
 *   An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
 * 
 */
function sky_preprocess_ddblock_cycle_block_content(&$vars) {
  if ($vars['output_type'] == 'view_fields') {
    $content = array();
    // Add slider_items for the template 
    // If you use the devel module uncomment the following line to see the theme variables
    // dsm($vars['settings']['view_name']);  
    // dsm($vars['content'][0]);
    // If you don't use the devel module uncomment the following line to see the theme variables
    // drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($vars['settings']['view_name'], true) . '</pre>');
    //drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($vars['content'][0], true) . '</pre>');
    if ($vars['settings']['view_name'] == 'kanal_items') {
      foreach ($vars['content'] as $key1 => $result) {
        // add slide_image variable 
        if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid)) {
          // get image id
          $fid = $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid;
          // get path to image
          $filepath = db_result(db_query("SELECT filepath FROM {files} WHERE fid = %d", $fid));
          $slider_items[$key1]['slide_image'] = $filepath;      
        }
        // add slide_text variable
        if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_slide_text_value)) {
          $slider_items[$key1]['slide_text'] =  $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_slide_text_value;
        }
        // add slide_title variable
        if (isset($result->node_title)) {
          $slider_items[$key1]['slide_title'] =  $result->node_title;
        }
        // add slide_read_more variable and slide_node variable
        if (isset($result->nid)) {
          $slider_items[$key1]['slide_read_more'] =  l('Read more...', 'node/' . $result->nid);
          $slider_items[$key1]['slide_node'] =  'node/' . $result->nid;
        }
      }
      $vars['slider_items'] = $slider_items;  
    }    
  }
}  
/**
 * Override or insert variables into the ddblock_cycle_pager_content templates.
 *   Used to convert variables from view_fields  to pager_items template variables
 *  Only used for custom pager items
 *
 * @param $vars
 *   An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
 *
 */
function sky_preprocess_ddblock_cycle_pager_content(&$vars) {
  if (($vars['output_type'] == 'view_fields') && ($vars['pager_settings']['pager'] == 'custom-pager')){
    $content = array();
    // Add pager_items for the template 
    // If you use the devel module uncomment the following lines to see the theme variables
    // dsm($vars['pager_settings']['view_name']);     
    // dsm($vars['content'][0]);     
    // If you don't use the devel module uncomment the following lines to see the theme variables
    // drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($vars['pager_settings'], true) . '</pre>');
    // drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($vars['content'][0], true) . '</pre>');
    if ($vars['pager_settings']['view_name'] == 'kanal_items') {
      foreach ($vars['content'] as $key1 => $result) {
        if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid)) {
          $fid = $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid;
          $filepath = db_result(db_query("SELECT filepath FROM {files} WHERE fid = %d", $fid));
          $pager_items[$key1]['image'] = $filepath;
        }
        if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value)) {
          $pager_items[$key1]['text'] =  $result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value;
        }
      }
    }
    $vars['pager_items'] = $pager_items;
  }    
}

The system does seem to work but no image is displayed. The code on the page simply shows up the sites base path the image field does not seem to be loaded. I can edit the code in firebug and the image is displayed in the correct way.

An extract from Firebug:

<div class="slide clear-block border" style="position: absolute; top: 0pt; left: 0pt; display: none; z-index: 2; opacity: 0;">
<div class="slide-inner clear-block border">
<img src="/dev/site/"/>
<div class="slide-text slide-text-horizontal slide-text-top clear-block border" style="">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="slide clear-block border" style="position: absolute; top: 0pt; left: 0pt; display: block; z-index: 1; opacity: 0.899;">

If I edit the code after /dev/site/ and add the path to the image it functions.

Help please, sorry I can't give the site URL as it is a client development site. Please let me know if you need any more information.