Agree, reinstalling useless.
What has served as a work-around is using the tedious "interview mode", takes a half an hour or so to familiarize yourself with the fixed asset entry stuff.
There have been a series of bugs by Intuit in this area, and in all cases I've been able to get a "correct" form set up via the interview mode, and then returned to forms-mode for numerical entry revisions, etc - just DON'T land on the asset type field an inadvertently change it! (FYI: actually, landing on it will not change it, whatever you entered via interview mode will stay there as long as you don't explicitly change it to one of the few listed in the dropdown menu...
