Ow Mun Heng wrote:

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From: gsstark@gmail.com [mailto:gsstark@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark
  
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Ow Mun Heng<ow.mun.heng@wdc.com> wrote:
   RETURN NULL;
      
Just make your trigger return NEW and it won't kill the insert to the
child table.
    

Dang it.. I just re-read the online docs this morning and I missed it. 
Then again, since I'm new to triggers, I may have mis-interpreted that.

Thanks for it. I'll give it a go.
I agree that is certainly one problem, but in any case an After Update trigger would have worked.