I need to track both my food and my exercise, but I ABSOLUTELY HATE how this program adds my exercise calories into what I can have for the day. If I was on a maintenance program, that would be fine. But I'm not and most folks out here aren't either. Is there any setting that I missed so that I can choose to turn off that function?
If not, technical people, can you make it so?

No, you can't turn it off. MFP does not figure your exercise when it gives you a calorie goal; that's why it adds the calories back in. Other programs do the same thing - they just figure the exercise in beforehand.

Just don't pay attention to it and use only the original calories alloted for each day.

I feel the same and so log all my exercise on map my run, feel free to add me if you like.

You can't turn it off, but the whole point of adding your exercise calories is to show you how much more you need to eat to reach your net calorie goal. You don't want your net calories for the day being under 1200 minimum.

I use the maintenance setting on MFP and just use my exercise calories burned as my deficit. It will be slower, but it will be healthier and more effective in the long run than eating less AND burning calories without eating them back

I just pop them in the notes part, that way I'm not tempted to eat them back :)

But yeah the programme does factor them in, so just see what works for you :D

You could change the calories to 1 if you don't want to eat them. My exercise calories that I eat are extra yummy though.

You could try logging your calorie intake for the day first and then after you're done logging for the day then log your exercise. It'll still show you as under your calorie goal but you'll know beforehand that you've eaten the minimal calories per day and not eaten any exercise calories back.

Exactly!