Mod Rewrite Problem

[phpmind]

I am doing a mod rewrite on a page like the following:

www.mysite.com/user/jsmith/

executes the following:
www.mysite.com/result.php?user =jsmith

This works but the top of my page where my header is suppose to be does not display my header properly. I assume it is because it contains images that are in a folder called images. Do I need to create the htaccess file at all levels ?
How is this handled ?

[phpmind]

Hello, I was able to get my problem resolved but one more thing:

I have a web page that looks like

https://www.mysite.com/page.php?user=fred

I was able to get the mod rewrite to display

https://www.mysite.com/user/fred

with this
Code:
RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+) /?$ /page.php?user=$ 1 [L]

I would ultimately like to display

https://www.mysite.com/fred

How can this be done using the rewrite rule ?