I appreciate the reply, but I did try all of that to no avail. I discovered the reason it kept putting me back to standard though - it was because the extra $300 the CARES act lets you add on to the standard deduction for charitable donations was bumping my standard deduction just over my itemized deduction. It is not clearly outlined or explained, however, on Turbo Tax. I had to do some googling to discover this, plus another helpful member of the community later pointed this out as well. In the end it was forcing me into the correct deduction, it just doesn't explain it well at all.
