Thank you for your response JohnB5677, however I believe you may have misunderstood my situation.
Schedule A, Line 18 states "If you elect to itemize deductions even though they are less than your standard deduction, check this box". As indicated in my initial post, itemized deductions exceed the standard deduction by approximately $6,000. Consequently, checking the Schedule A Line 18 box is incorrect. I have gone through the interview questions after "Done with Deductions" multiple times to remove the checkbox, have gone into the Forms menu and tried to remove the checkbox - all to no avail.
Possibly I have a corrupted file? If not, this appears to be a TurboTax program error.
