Index: trunk/psModules/src/objects/pmPSFtry.c
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--- trunk/psModules/src/objects/pmPSFtry.c	(revision 29004)
+++ trunk/psModules/src/objects/pmPSFtry.c	(revision 30621)
@@ -84,5 +84,13 @@
 
     for (int i = 0; i < sources->n; i++) {
-        test->sources->data[i] = pmSourceCopy (sources->data[i]);
+	pmSource *sourceOld = sources->data[i];
+	pmSource *sourceNew = pmSourceCopy (sourceOld);
+
+	// save a reference so we can get back to the original
+	// this is specifically used in psphotChooosePSF to unflag the candidate PSF sources
+	// which were not actually used to generate a PSF model
+	sourceNew->parent = sourceOld; 
+
+        test->sources->data[i] = sourceNew;
     }