It's not a folder, it's a call to the item through the shorturl's and it should be there by stock; if it's not working (or you don't have shorturls working on yoru system) you can call it as:
ubbthreads.php?ubb=searchtips

Instead of:
ubbthreads.php/ubb/searchtips

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