Updating Content Type Failed

I'm fairly new to Sharepoint and Infopath.  I hope someone here can help me.   

I have a large Infopath form with ~90 fields on it.  When I try to publich to the server, I get "Updating [or Creating] Content Type Failed".
I determined this to be due to the number of fields and some sort of time out issue with Infopath.  I have seen a few other posts on that and the only solution I've seen is to publish with fewer fields - that does indeed work, but it doesn't solve my problem as I need all of these fields.  

I've also seen a solution to publish with fewer fileds successfully and then republish with all you need and that the "Failed" message won't matter.  Kinda true, but then I have an issue with it no longer opening in browser.

So then, I tried publishing it to my desktop and uploading it through Central Admin, activating it to a site collection, and using it that way.  That actually works the best so far, but then I get no option to select my Parent Content Type - it just picks "Form" - and that also doesn't work for me.  I need to select Parent Content Type

Then, I tried to Create a new CT from scratch and point it to the form template I recently uploaded.  I get to pick my parent and all, but none of the promoted properties are there, so they don't show up in my workflow, and that's the end of that route.

Now, I am out of ideas (but you can't say I didn't try)
Anyone out there have any suggestions that could help me?

Thanks