Buttons within a dragged object

I have a map movie clip in a swf that can be panned using
startDrag/stopDrag. Within the map are buttons but the buttons
don't work, (even after it has been dragging has been stopped).
When I remove the dragging script the button work fine.
This is my drag script; "map" is the movie clip that is being
dragged which has the buttons in it:
on (press) {
startDrag(_root.map);
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}

if you define a mouse handler for a parent movieclip, the
mouse events will be intercepted by that parent and no child
movieclip or button with detect any mouse event. to remedy, use a
loop and hitTest for the parent or the child.

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