You know Matt I was just thinking, if you don’t want to use iCloud you don’t have to log in with your password, you should just be able to log on with your numeric passcode on the touch screen. I found that logging into iCloud was just to much of a problem. I don’t use iCloud, and I don’t want to deal with all the extra entries that are prompted with iCloud in use. If you are already logged on to iCloud, and you don’t want to use it, go the the top field in settings and just log out of iCloud. Your iPad will work just fine without it, trust me. And this will probably help you avoid any future problems like you had the other day.
I personally don’t want all my info in the “cloud”. And whenever you install uodates and you are prompted to set up iCloud, just select skip this step, or emaybe later, whateevrerr the choice that is offered to proceed. You can always set up, or shut down iCloud at a leter date by going into the settings menu and following the prompts, its easy peasy.
HTH,
Eddie