Context-root Problem

The project I'm working on has just recently changed the context-root of the webapp from / to /grp. As the UI developer for this project, this seemingly small change has had a huge impact on my workload. All of the images, stylesheets and JavaScript files have absolute paths. For example, an image on the site would have the path
/i/t.gif
I'd like to know if there's a way to map /i to /grp/i without having to change every JSP in the webapp (~3000 files).
I read about virtual-directory-mapping at http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/webapp/weblogic_xml.html#1039396 but that only seems to apply to a directory on the server and not within the WAR file itself.

one solution for that is use a web server such i-planet that manage the static content.
the location of static content must be independent of application.

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