Oof, disregard - resolved. I had to go into the "Dependent Worksheet" and make a bunch of manual selections to make it work.
D- to the good people at Turbotax who thought they got this implementation correct, what a confusing pain and if in the end one has to be intuitive/adept in enough in reviewing the forms manually, recognizing errors and finding ways to override...then what exactly is the "value" Turbotax is providing me here. Poorly done guys.