Deductions & credits

The first person who tried to help me with this from TurboTax was not able to figure it out.  I had to get a CPA on the phone.  She took a bit of time to figure it out, but she did figure it out.  We had to somehow bypass it (can't remember how she did that) and jump over to State taxes which allowed me to say I didn't have that form (or something like that) and then we were free to go back to federal.  Only THEN -- did it allow us to move forward.  There is clearly a bug of some wort in the programming.