FINALLY!! Placing a zero in the "Charitable Contributions" section of the 1040 federal form worked. After making the fix and resubmitting the CA State Taxes again - CA accepted them within 30 minutes.
Now...what I don't like about this "workaround" is that my Federal Return submitted on 2/15 and accepted has the correct $500 Charitable Contributions; my CA State now is based on the modified 1040 Federal Return which doesn't have the $500 Charitable Contribution.
Come on Intuit! You're better than this. Fix the BUG!!
