Hey gents,
Thought I posted this reply already but perhaps I previewed and then moved away from the page not realizing.
Anyway, I never added any code anywhere for the favicon.ico I just put it in my home directory and then it shows up for all pages. For instance:
/var/www/ostickets/favicon.ico
I don't know why but this didn't show up right away. I don't know if something needed reloading or what but I do remember that I couldn't figure out why it wasn't showing up and then the next day (after doing nothing) there it was. At any rate I did double check my code and there is no instance of "favicon.ico" anywhere in any file.