Thanks again VolvoGirl for your quick and efficient response.
I am hoping that the product itself will clearly say on the outside of the packaging that certain things can or cannot be done with the CD so that consumers like you and I will find it relatively easy to identify the right package for our particular situation, then buy and open the package without any concern about what we are going to get from the packaged product.
As time has gone by, the packaging or advertising has tended to be confusing to some of us and we are overspending or underspending and wasting a lot of precious time each year as we try to file our taxes.
For whatever reason a lot of the advertising and website information about tax software in general - (what it supports or does not support) - ...is getting slicker and more expensive; but the product in many cases is not meeting the need of the consumer at a reasonable cost.
