Creating a button with text in FlashCS5

I am fairly new with using FlashCS5. I just finished the class and created a button with text in it for class but now when I need to do it for a project I can't seem to get it to work.
I am trying to create a simple start and stop button to start and stop a Flash movie. I can get the buttons to work without any text, such as the word start and stop in the middle of each. Everything I've tried to do with the text on the button turns out the same.
What happens is that in Flash the buttons appear to work fine. The little hand with the finger shows no matter where I place my cursor on the button but when I test them the area where the text is does not allow the click to work. I have tried specifying a hit area and made sure that the hit area was larger than the entire button but still the middle where the text is doesn't work. Outside of the text area works fine.
Any ideas? I've spent 4 hours on this.

Thank you for the reply but what I am doing is much simpler. I am creating a gray rectangle and putting text in the center. I am then selecting both the rectangle and the text and converting it to a button. I am then editing the button from the library and adding a keyframe to the hit area, drawing a rectangle around the button to establish the hit area.
I am enabling simple buttons and when in Flash it appears fine. It is when I test that the area where the text is doesn't function as clickable.

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