@Jaymmo, sorry I missed your questions here... I just put $1 in box 1 and made no other changes to the quantities in the other boxes.
An hour ago I e-Filed both Federal and CA State and my Federal return is already showing Accepted. So the IRS doesn't care about what is essentially a rounding variance. And since CA just receives a copy of my filed Federal return then there should be no reason for them to care either. EDIT: Fifteen minutes after my post here my CA return has been Accepted as well.
I also saved PDF versions both for my own Records and the forms required for Filing. That Filing PDF shows no evidence of individual W-2 information. So the supposed reason offered by TurboTax as to why an entered W-2 requires something other than $0 in box 1 -- "this is required by IRS regulations" -- seems pretty weak to me.
I am now answering the post-filing questionnaire in TurboTax "How likely are you to recommend TurboTax to a friend?". I will mention this issue specifically among other things (like the lack of non-ambiguous KB articles for issues like this, the lack of a published Revision History for changes to the Desktop app, etc.). For now TurboTax gets 7 stars from me but that may change next year if they can improve in these areas.
