I also tried to override the Schedule A entry, but could not make it work. Eventually I did what I described in my March 15 post: I fed TT fictitious interest payment data (while NOT checking the "amount is different" box) designed to make the deduction on Schedule A work out correctly. This means my worksheets within TT are wrong, but everything submitted to the IRS is correct. My state return is for OR, and the above procedure did not result in any problems. I don't know what would happen with a CA state return.
Agreed that it's absolutely infuriating that Intuit just ignores this issue, months after several users have pointed it out.
