It depends. I think what happened is that you first entered your traditional IRA contribution, the program thought it was deductible and your refund meter spiked. As you started entering more information into your return and choose not to deduct the IRA contribution then your refund dropped because it was no longer a deductible contribution. This would be my guess.
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