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"Injured" spouse is when you are filing a joint return with your spouse and your spouse has debts from before the marriage, and you want to keep "your share" of the joint refund from being taken. You can't file an injured spouse form if you are married filing separately, or to be relieved of debts that occurred during the marriage.
"Innocent" spouse is filed after you have been divorced at least 6 months, and the IRS is coming after you for errors or debts from a joint return filed when you were married, and you are asking the IRS to place all the blame on your former spouse, even though you signed a joint return. You can't file an innocent spouse form if you are still married.
Turbotax has a very specific interview that was required by the IRS to ask specific questions to make sure you are actually qualified to use one of those forms before it will actually begin to prepare the form.
What is your situation, and what questions do you think are wrong?