If you are using a 2 handed weapon, make sure the dragon shield is not in your equipment window. Your character will still auto-equip a shield when picked up if you have a 2 handed weapon (which can be annoying), though the shield slot will be darkened (making the shield hard to see).
After tons of searching and back tracking on old saves and what not, after reading your response It hit me that it was auto equipped, thanks for giving me a really good laugh lol...wow, but relieved. Once again Thanks so much. Its funny how things like that happen.
