Help! My ipad is disabled permanently (password problems) what can I do??

So I came home, reached out to my iPad, just to find these words: "iPad is disabled; connect to iTunes" .... This is probably because a younger family member was fiddling with the password. ...Where do I go to fix this??

You have to restore the device within iTunes. You want to use the same computer that you always sync with so that you can restore your app data and settings. You can restore with any other computer, but you will lose everything on the iPad.
Instructions can be found here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
Make sure that you pay attention to the section at the very of the article that talks about having never synced your iPad with iTunes. You may need have to restore the iPad that way.

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