{!nextStatus} is empty when doing a Mass Update on records.

I have triggers set up for Workflow Status changes.

Since some of my Workflow Actions do not change the Status, I needed to set up a "Before Update" Trigger that listens to the Workflow Status field. If {!nextStatus} is blank (meaning that the status won't change, and the Updated Status trigger won't fire), it calls the "Updated Status" trigger by hand.

This was working fine, until I made a mass update to change multiple records' Status.

In the Mass Update case, {!nextStatus} shows as blank, so the Before Update trigger manually calls the Status Changed trigger. Then, the Status are all changed to a new value, and the Status Changed trigger is invoked once again - causing duplicate action, which is undesirable to me.

How do I solve this? {!nextStatus} shouldn't be blank, in my opinion.

Thanks