Button ActionScript 2.0

Hello, I have a button and defined 3 different layouts in the states Up, Over and Down. If the user clicks on the button and moves the cursor out of the area after the mouse click, the layout of the cursor should still show the "Down-layout", just to indicate that the user has already clicked the button. This state should be active until the user clicks on another button. How has this to be solved? Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards Ute

Hi Ned,
now I changed my buttons to movieclips, but I don't get that what I want:
when the user - after having clicked on the mc "cereluna_btn_inst" - rolls out his mouse out of the area, then frame 1 is shown.
It is clear for me that I have this behaviour because I use this scripting below. But I don't know how to change the script, so that frame 2 is shown as long as "cereluna" is played.
/* cereluna */
kollektion.cereluna_btn_inst.onRollOver = function(){
    kollektion.cereluna_btn_inst.gotoAndStop(2);
kollektion.cereluna_btn_inst.onRollOut = function(){
    kollektion.cereluna_btn_inst.gotoAndStop(1);
kollektion.cereluna_btn_inst.onRelease = function(){
    gotoAndPlay("cereluna");
"kollektion" is a mc; in this mc I have "mc-buttons" like "cereluna_btn_inst". These mc buttons have two frames:
frame 1: a grey picture, frame 2 a highlighted picture. The result should be: if "cereluna" is played, frame 2
should be "active" even when the user moves the cursor out of the area.
Best regards,
Ute

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