Text Buttons

What I want to do is take changing the color of text buttons a step further. I have read may book and nothing touches on this topic.  Well one did but told me what I already know, which I will point out below.
If you have a button that is titled Photography and you double click the button it takes you to a window where you see  Up, Over, Down, Hit.
If I change the color of the font on Over, and Down, the button changes color when it is rolled over and pressed.  My color change is blue.
When you release the mouse or role off the word Photography in your test movie window the color of the word Photography goes back to
Black.
What I want to do is have the color stay Blue when the Photography button is click and the Photography page opens.  Then if I were to click the next word Jewelry, which should turn green I want it to stay green when it goes to the Jewelry page, and on that page the word Photography is again black, until I click it and it goes to the Photography page.
What I don't want to do is have a second photography button that is Blue.  I know that I can copy the button code but that seems like more work than necessary.  I am sure it can be written in UNIX code but I don't write UNIX and I use all the pull down menus to create simple web pages.  I know how to animate and am well versed in the simple things Adobe Flash can do but it seems that the simple things I want to do can't be done.
Please reply asap or EM [email protected] and type Adobe Text Button in header.
Thank you to whom ever can help.

If you want buttons to retain their states, then you need to use movieclips instead of buttons.  Search Google using terms like "AS3 movieclip button tutorial" (replace AS3 with AS2 if that's your intention)

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