Making a visible top layer invisible for buttons/ controls on a layer underneath it.

THE PROJECT
I have 3 layers in a CS3 project, in the following order:
- top Layer (semi-transparent Vignet Layer, and some additional Graphics, all this is contained in a dynamicly loaded mc)
- Middle layer (Content, this contains the navigation and content. All of this loads dynamicly)
- Background (this contains a screenfilling Background image and some graphic alements, all this is contained in a dynamicly loaded mc)
THE PROBLEM
The top layer blocks all off the dynamic content because its on top of it.
SOLUTION
Dynamicly disable the top layer, so flash doent use it anymore.
I want to keep it visible, but not accessible for any mouse actions.
It has to keep the dynamic content underneath it visible for interaction.
I hope I Described it clear enough, so someone can give me the solution.
I gues it's some real simple code attachment.
Thanks.

I made a quick exaample to demo having a layer of something atop a controls layer and disabling it from interfering with controls below it. For this example, the lightened rectangular area is the Vignet layer that sits atop a button on a layer below it--I threw in a background layer too, just to cofuse the eyeballs I guess.. When you click the button it enables the Vignet layer so that it blocks the button, and clicking on it disables it again... just a liuttle variety of commands that might be useful for you at some point.
If you can let me/us know whow you file differs, then maybe it will be easier to identify a different solution if one is needed.
http://www.nedwebs.com/Flash/Vignet.fla

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> Somebody please help:
> I've taught myself enough with Flash to customize a
fully-Flash
> template for
> my wife's website, and two of the buttons didn't do what
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> Actionscript. They then began giving me the message:
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1: Mouse
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> on (rollOver) {
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> Not only do I not know how to fix this, the same message
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