This is impacting a significant number of users.
Not sure whose error this is (would bet a combination of both) but after wasting 15 hours of my life I got past it no thanks to Intuit.
Problem was Deluxe installing as Basic. This resulted in activation error code (606) not matching (Basic software Deluxe code) after hours on support messing with windows installer to no avail I did what they said would not work. On uninstall from "add remove programs" I asked to "repair" Turbo Tax vs "uninstall". While it did come back as Basic at the end of the process it immediately jumped by itself into an update (to get the patch it needed) and success it started as Deluxe. Activation code then worked.
Success
Hope someone from Intuit reads this.
