After you file

I had a combat-zone extension for my taxes, and I was out of country with no internet or ability to file until the middle of July.  I had no idea that I had to be in the process of filing my new return in order to access last year's return.  In no way is it intuitive that this would be a prerequisite for accessing a past return (considering that I did pay a fee in order to file last year's return).  Hardly salient.  

Doubtful there will be many more questions as I'm fairly certain that I'm done with TurboTax and Intuit.