Can you explain more in depth what you mean? You should reference template paths always via /s9ypath/templates and never only via templates/...
Inside a .tpl file, the {serendipity_getFile} smarty function takes care of this. The reason is that files not only are embedded within /archives but could also show up in any other dir structure like /plugin/tag/blabla, where a relative "templates/..." would resolve to /plugin/tag/blabla/templates, which of course also doesn't exist.
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Garvin
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