Can I constrain mouse to loaded swf? (beginner question)

Hi folks, I built a movie in flash CS4 based on the tutorial here:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/detecting_when_mouse_leaves_movie.htmhttp://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/detecting_when_mouse_leaves_movie.htm Now if I load this swf into a bigger SWF the mouse is acting in the entire movie as if it were in de loaded swf. This also happens when I test it (ctrl-enter) and make the resulting box bigger... the mouse will not fade at the border of the swf any more, but at the border of the containing window....) is there a (easy) way to constrain the mouse behaviour within the box of the loaded swf (like the MOUSELEAVE event triggered when i leave the box of the loaded swf in stead of the entire stage?) Thanks!

okay!
So I'm a little bit further now...
I restricted the mouse within the containing box by monitoring it's position in de container. thanks for that tip!
that works!
so next step is: How do I get my mouse back? (the swf in the container contains a Mouse.hide and Mouse.show doesn't seem to do anything?
and 2nd is how do I get the MOUSELEAVE function to fire in de contained swf when the containermouse is no longer over the contained swf?
I will check out the Attaboy tip now.. see if I can find more info on that.

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it out for yuh'. I assumed you were using a "ScrollPane" for your
scrolling and that there was a button inside of that component. Let
me know if this is wrong. It shouldn't be too different even if
you're not using the "ScrollPane". Aslo, all the code below goes on
the main timeline.
notes:
"container" is the empty clip that holds the content.
"mc" is the MovieClip inside of the ScrollPane ( located in
the loaded *.swf ).
"mouseIsDown" is a boolean ( true/false). It checks to see if
the user is holding down on the mouse or not.
The rest is pretty easy to figure out.

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