screen inside of screen

Howdy all,
	I was unable to find a solution to my problem in other forums, so
yesterday I jumped through the flaming hoops to join this list.  Then, I
got educated in the finer points of netiquette from Sven.  After which,
I was nearly too frightened to post here.  So, I opened the liquor
cabinet and had some liquid courage.

Anyway, here's my deal. I am starting from my.bashrc like so:

if [ "$TERM" = "screen" -a ! "$SHOWED_SCREEN_MESSAGE" = "true" ]; then
  detached_screens=`screen -list | grep Detached`
  if [ ! -z "$detached_screens" ]; then
    echo "+---------------------------------------+"
    echo "| Detached screens are available:       |"
    echo "$detached_screens"
    echo "+---------------------------------------+"
  else
    echo "[ screen is activated ]"
  fi
  export SHOWED_SCREEN_MESSAGE="true"
fi

I have it setup this way on all my machines.  My question is, when I ssh
from one machine to another, I'd like to be able to detach the remote
screen process.  However, my ctrl-a commands get grabbed by the local
screen process.  Is there a way around this?  Or, rather, a better way
to do what I'm trying to accomplish?  I suppose I could bind another key
to do what ctrl-a does, I just wonder if there is another solution.

If it matters, here are my machine specs:

Linux daneel 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 #1 SMP Wed Mar 3 17:04:14 MST 2004 i686
Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Screen version 4.00.01
(FAU) 18-Sep-03 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13

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