Including a header from outside wp direcrory

I am trying to include a header that i have created for my site in my /wordpress directory. I am having issues with :

1. the header displaying images that are referenced in the header

2. the links properly sourcing the path.
The links in my header will resolve to
“www.mysite.com/wordpress/page.html” instead
of “www.mysite.com/page.html”

any help is much appreciated.

wiki!presto.