@jonathan – thanks for the help. I ran into an issue with the wordpress “save_post” action that it was running prior to the saving of all of the custom post meta fields. I wound up messing around with several other actions before trying the “acf/save_post” again and I pulled the priority 20 and now it runs as I’m expecting it too.
I also stuck a hidden value into my front end form to look for on the server side so that I know if it’s a post from the front end or not.
Thanks for all of the help!
Alan