Trouble returning to page after form submission

[eluser]Tekamba[/eluser]
I am building a website using CodeIgniter (my first) and so far I’ve worked through all the little issues except for this one.

I have a template setup for navigation in my primary controller. So calls to each page are formatted as such:
http://mywebsite.com/main/contact (for the contact us page. The function in main is formatted as such:

public function contact() {

$data[‘pagetitle’] = ‘Contact page for the website’;
$data[‘pageauthor’] = ‘Name of website author’;
$data[‘pagedesc’] = ‘Description of the page goes here’;
$data[‘media’] = ‘screen’;
$data[‘main_content’] = ‘contact’;
$this->load->view(‘includes/template’, $data);
}

The template file is this:
<?php
$this->load->view(‘includes/startpage’);
$this->load->view(‘includes/header’);
?>

<div id=“main_content”>
&lt;?php $this->load->view($main_content); ?&gt;
</div>

&lt;?php
$this->load->view(‘includes/footer’);
$this->load->view(‘includes/endpage’);
?&gt;

This works perfectly well through all my nav links and such, where it causes an error is when the user fills out the contact form and it gets submitted at the end of the email send function is this line:

$this->load->view(‘main/contact’);
This throws the error that the page cannot be found, but the page it is looking for is:
main/contact.php (not sure why it is adding the .php, it is correct if it weren't for that.

But the link that is generated is: http://mywebsite.com/email/contactsend (email is the class name of the email process functions, the email does send but the link doesn’t re-direct to the appropriate page and I am not sure what I have setup incorrectly.

Thanks for any guidance.

Greg