Clarification please for TT guidance completing foreign tax credit interview

I've read several times the TT special instructions when multiple categories of foreign income are present.  However, I continue to be unable to enter all the foreign taxes paid via the interview.  This is my situation:  all foreign tax paid is on passive income; all foreign taxes paid are documented on two 1099-DIVs, one from a brokerage account and the other from a different company that deals predominantly with mutual funds.  On the 1099-DIV from the different company, all the foreign tax paid was by a single mutual fund and it is a RIC.  On the 1099-DIV from the brokerage account, there are several holdings that paid foreign income tax.  Some of them are RICs, other portfolio items are enumerated by the name of a county.  I can't figure out how to organize the entries to satisfy the requirements to file electronically.  The single highest dollar amount of foreign tax paid is from the RIC at the mutual fund company.  The second highest would be the sum of the 3 RICs on the brokerage account and then the single country items in the brokerage account's 1099-DIV.  Should my first copy of the 1116 be only for the RIC on the mutual fund company's 1099-DIV or should if be a consolidated reporting of all the RICs from both of the 1099-DIV's and then redo the interview for a second copy of the 1116, addressing the brokerage account listings of the individual companies by name?  In fact, I'm not even sure if each RIC on the brokerage 1099-DIV requires it's own copy of the 1116 or if they can be consolidated on one RIC report.  I saw a very similar inquiry from 2 years ago and the only solution offered was to mail a hard copy return with photocopies of the relevant pages from the 1099s documenting the foreign taxes paid and a cover letter essentially requesting the IRS to finish properly filling out the 1116(s)!!  I don't want to go that route, or now pay a tax preparer when I've already completed 95% of my federal and state returns.  Besides, that won't enable me to do it correctly next year.