Design view no longer displaying included files properly or at all

Hello,
The site I need help with is a classic asp site. I am using Dreamweaver CS5.5 and am working in Windows 7 Professional.
For over a year I have been opening files directly from two separate servers (one is testing, the other is live) and the files previewed fine in design view. One day design view stopped working for asp files on both servers and I do not know what caused this. HTML files still preview fine.
On the live server, design view is not recognizing the included files at all. On the test server design view is recognizing the html from the includes but not any images or files with a "/" as the first character in the path.
The loss of design view is making my styleing very challenging. I think I need to tell dreamweaver where the root of the testing and live server are. I'm not sure is this is the solution and if it is I am not sure how to implement it. Perhaps I should try to uninstall/reinstall Dreamweaver. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Paul

Please show us the code from a sample parent page and an included page.

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