Buttons with alpha

I have created some circular navigation buttons with alpha,
and I am wondering if I can get the alpha to be honoured in two situations.
1) When I click on the button only the circle part gets highlighted.
2) If I overlay these buttons over a graphic, the alpha gets honoured as well.
I am using a png but I can not find a function in acrobat that accepts the
alpha channel.
Thanks

Sure, Thanks for your help Zaxist!
Boiling it down to the most simple, this is the prob.
Layer: Symbol with gallery images (images are turned off inside the symbol.. so they should not block anything)
Layer: Symbol (button A)
With this layout... Button A doesn't work at all. The button is not detected when mouse is clicked.
But...
If i delete the top layer... Button A works.
If I turn off the top layer from the stage. (top/left display option)... Button A works.
Using an image, I wish it could be ignored by any mouse/touch events, so it doesn't block any layers beneath it.
I've been playing with somehow turning off the display on the gallery symbol from another button. So far i've started to dig into css and found
<style>
span
display:none;
</style>
but i dont know how to put that into a button's events like mouseclick or mousedown from another symbol.
Does that explain things better?

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