Reset ipad2, now keep getting iCloud box requesting password--but won't accept!  How to solve?

I have an ipad2 that was displaying about 20 greyed out app icons.  It took awhile (and User Manual was no help), but I finally concluded that these apps could not update--which was why I woulld see the caption change to "Waiting" under them when pressed.  Thought I should try to Reset all settings (not data) under the General tab, see if that would allow them to update.  Seemed to work, since all greyed icons disappeared.  But next time I turned on the iPad, I got an iCloud box, showing my email, asking for Apple password.  Typed it in, and it would not accept.  After several tries, got a "If you have forgotten your password, you can reset it" message, with "Reset" and "Okay" choices.  NEITHER worked.  Nor would trying to enter about a dozen other passwords that I commonly use.  Finally went to support, changed my password--which works on this Compaq laptop, and got me into this account.  But the new password also will not work for iCloud.  Nothing I can do seems to have any effect on the iPad, but when the cable is connected to this laptop, I do get the two-tone sound indicating plug in, disconnect.  Does ANYone have any suggestions as to how I can get rid of this idiotic iCloud message?  (If so, I will probably take the app OFF my iPad, just use it for Android phone, laptop, and desktop.  This is RIDICULOUS--and Apple should be addressing it.  (I seem to see other questions that are sort of the same.)
Please respond ASAP--need to take this iPad from Jackson Hole to Austin for three-day reunion on Wednesday, show some old pix on it!

There isn''t a "key" for "I forgot the password" to your wifi.  If you didn't set the wifi password on your router, it may be printed on a label on the back or side of your router.
If you are entering the correct password, but it is not being saved, unplug your router for 15 seconds, then plug it back in, the on your phone go to Settings>General>Reset and tap Reset Network Settings, then try joining your wifi again and see if the password is saved now.

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