Turns out I had used the Research Study option previously. I only ran into problems when I did the smart scan -- it errored on all of the Schedule C lines that were not filled in. I had answered Y to the question "did you perform a service to earn this money," and apparently that's what generated the Schedule C. I changed the answer to N, but that didn't remove the Schedule C that had been created, even after I completely deleted everything I had entered about the 1099-MISC and started over. Looking at the forms screen I found the "unnamed" Schedule C that had generated the errors, as well as the Schedule C titled "Medical Research Study." I deleted the unnamed Schedule C and that eliminated the errors in the scan. So the final answer was to answer NO to whether services were performed to earn the money from the research study.
