event log clearing problem

I am having a problem clearing event logs with the error – Event Viewer “Clearing the event log failed because of the following error: Access is denied.” This error only occurs when I try to clear the logs from a child domain in a parent/child domain setup while being logged into the parent domain (domain = Win2k native). This has also only happened since I removed myself from the parents Enterprise Admin group. Is there a way to delegate/grant ACL’s for me, in the parent domain, to clear events from the child domain w/o being an Enterprise Admin?
I am in the following groups: parent\Administrators; parent\Domain Admins; parent\Users; child\Domain Admins; child\Administrators; child\Domain Users.
Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated as I can’t seem to find this anywhere else. Thanks, 🙂