In working on troubleshooting via FB messenger, I received a new download to try. I could not file federal + Michigan even after the manual update with the new download.
Based upon another reply in this thread, I decided to uninstall/reinstall that new version and just submit the federal (without the infamous manual update) and had success. However, when returning to submit the state return, ended up with the same error. It seems that there is a bug remaining in the state efile.
