Well your script path should definitely contain 'adoptables/', although Id say the root directory should always be 'public_html' for linux hosting system. I think what you are trying to do is to access your site at 'fixmyfarmville.com', but not 'fixmyfarmville.com/adoptables'. In this way you just have to upload the files inside the '/adoptables' to your root directory, if these files are inside '/adoptables' you can only access it through 'fixmyfarmville.com/adoptables'.

So your choice is either to extract all files from folder '/adoptables' to its parent directory, or to get an addon domain and point it to the directory '/adoptables'. For instance my domain mysidiaadoptables.com is an addon domain itself, which points to a directory in the primary domain mysidiarpg.com. You can access it through both mysidiaadoptables.com, or mysidiarpg.com/adoptables. But to do this you need a different domain.

fixmyfarmville IS an addon (secondary) domain pointed at 'adoptables' (the primary domain is trueidiocy.us)... that's what is causing the problem I think... godaddy is treating 'adoptables' as the root of fixmyfarmville.com.... although I CAN access the index page from fixmyfarmville.com/adoptables or just fixmyfarmville.com ... but for some reason gives me this error:
Fatal Error: Class TemplatesController either does not exist, or has its include path misconfigured!

while works just fine

So anything pointing to the .com needs to not have 'adoptables', while everything pointing to server root (var/html or whatever it was) does need it

HEY!!!!!!!!! If I go change {$root} to '/' in the template the image shows up!!! I finally found something.... I have the 'left' image on the 'elements' theme now!!!

And {$home} to '/'

So at least it all looks right now