I sent another email to the OfficeofthePresident @ intuit. After looking into my case, they said that they had fixed this software bug, but since I had already attempted to efile 3 times with the same error code, the IRS had locked any future attempts at efiling and so I would have to mail in a paper return.
I just sent them an email asking if they could communicate with the IRS regarding this software bug so that those of us affected could efile, but it seems like a long shot.
** Yes, as I suspected they said they could not resolve any of this with the IRS.
