Please wade through the many comments earlier in this thread for more information before you cheat by calling your cash donations, item donations. The best workaround seems to be to let the bug manifest during federal review, then go into forms mode and change 1040 line 12b back from 300 to 600, and don't repeat the review (or make the fix again if you do). This worked for us all the way through e-filing, with state contributions deduction still working properly.
