[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
It does make things a lot easier if you use a virtual server in apache for each project instead of just having subdirectories. Then everything is truly in "root" as DOCUMENT_ROOT will be pointing to its own dir and will match your live production server.
What happens if you use
Code:
@import url('/CI/css/style.css');</style>
It looks like with your setup your root dir is actually "/CI". The DOCUMENT_ROOT is probably htdocs, unless you've created a virtual server.