Problem was solved!
I changed my firewall and network sharing settings. I found that I had ‘remote apple events’ disabled, and with my firewall, I had to specifiy what program was allowed access through the security. Once I enabled ‘remote apple events’ and specified that I wanted Cubase to be remotely accessed through the firewall settings, I was allowed to communicate properly with the iPad. I looked through documentation and tutorials and nothing was mentioned about this for troubleshooting. I guess Steinberg assumes that users are supposed to know how to properly configure these things before trying to establish a connection.
Anyhow, thank you very much for your help!
ITKoL