Same problem...hours and hours trying to work around it. I like your answer and will do my own calculations to come up with the correct single deduction. Only issue is the IRS will see the two 1098s we got for original loan and the refinanced one from same lender. How do we get around that? and which date to use for box 2? It seems like this should have been a simple situation but TT has turned it into a massive broken mess.
