Creating crosshairs for a game

i am a student and very new to flash, i am creating a shooter game for my class
i made a set of crosshairs and i set my enemies to disappear when i click on them and everything works fine but i noticed that my crosshairs don't line up to where i am clicking, so i go into my crosshairs which are a movie clip and move the crosshairs so the little + sign is lined up in the middle of the crosshairs, now when i play the game nothing happens when i click on the enemies unless i put the crosshairs layer below the enemies layer
i hope i worded all of that correctly and if not i apologize for my ignorance, any help would be greatly appreciated
Adam

You probably need to set the crosshairs mouseEnabled property to false...
crosshairs.mouseEnabled = false;

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