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Seems to me that you haven't exactly gotten what the situation is: the charges are not on different sides of the plane. They're both on the same side and on the other side I only put the image charges. Here is a drawing to explain what I mean.

Hello everybody and merry Christmas! Here is the text of the problem which has been puzzling me for the last few days: there are two charges distant d from one another and at distance a from a conducting plane. Find the electrostatic energy of the system. The first thing I find pretty strange...