have tried the following so far with no luck....
includes/misc.php file
adding into the detect_iphone function
strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],’iPad’)
also
preg_match('/ipad/i',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])
just forward stright to mobile.php
thinking of removing the redirect from the index.php file so no redirect to mobile alone as i will only be using iphone ipad and my android htc which is covered in the detect_iphone function