Synchronizing Master Pages in Book

I seem to have hit a Catch-22 and I'm hoping somebody can help.
I'm working on a book consisting of 25 chapters. Currently it's all in one file and that's becoming pretty unwieldy. So I'm breaking it up into separate files and using the book features in ID.
Every chapter starts the same way -- the first page has a big header with the chapter name. Text starts about halfway down the page. All other pages have folios with chapter names and page numbers, etc. And all the text is threaded together into a single flow.
So I've created two master spreads, one for the first page and the other for the other pages. I use those masters to create pages and then thread them together. I put together all the chapters this way, and added the chapter names, but didn't add text. And then I realized that the text box on the first page starts at the wrong place. I want it to start a bit higher on the page -- making the box bigger vertically. So I change the master page in the style source and I synchronize.
And that doesn't work. Now I have two text boxes on each starting page -- one with the old height and one with the new one.
According to the docs, if a master item has been overridden, and then when you synchronize, the item becomes detached. So I guess my question is: how do I add text to a text box, or thread it, without overriding it?
Or, more specifically -- how do I change the size of a text box on every starting page of every chapter?
Thanks very much to anybody who can offer any illumination on this one!
Steve Cohen

Jeez -- now I feel like I'm going nuts. Thought I had it figured out. So I went and created some chapters. And bang, I'm right back where I was. So now I'm checking every bloody keystroke.
Say I have two chapters: 1 & 2. Chapter 1 is the style source.
I command-option click on the frame on the first page in chapt 1, so it's overridden. I do nothing to chapter 2 (the same frame is not overridden)
Then I change the master page in chapt 1, making it shorter.
So far so good. The change propagates when I synch.
But if I just cmd-opt click in the same frame in chapt 2 -- so both frames are overridden -- bang, when I synch, the frame is detached in chapt 2.
No threading required. Just overriding the frame in both the style source and the same frame in the other chapter.
Steve

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