Okay – spam reply above is… not helping. (and really has nothing to do with the price of eggs in China…)
But anyway.
I suppose I should RTFM, no? I just saw the sticky post on this subject, and I fall under the category of “ur doin it rong.”
In case anyone else needs to know, when you create a child theme, it goes in your themes directory, not as a subfolder in the WordPress parent theme. Duh.
More coffee in the morning would be a good habit for me to take up.