Custom Cursors- drawing bitmaps?

Hello everyone,
I went on to www.youtube.com and found a tutorial to set up
custom cursor using the actionscript(2.0) on the actualt movie
clip(which was my cursor):
onClipEvent(enterFrame)
_x=_root._xmouse
_y=_root._ymouse
And the actionscript on the acutal frame:
Mouse.hide()
This code sufficiantly replaced my mouse with my movie clip,
but I noticed when i moused over my button, they did not show the
same mouse over that I had with the normal mouse.
Another thing I could like to acomplish is, when my custom
cursor click anywhere in the flash movie, it overlays a bitmap(an
image(a .jpeg)) on that instance of that flash movie. I've seen it
done before in flash sites that allow that user to create things
such as characters or art. I know it's posible, but I've searched
all of the internet and have gained no fruit from it.
If anyone would be so kind as to show me how to go this, or
even simply point me to a link. I would be very greatful. If I do
get it working, I'll be sure to share it with the community, as
what I'm gonna use it for is pretty cool in my opinion.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
Peace,
Mike.

So I put the code clbeech seggusted in the actions frame and
it didn't work.
How do I insert a link to download my flash file so that
someone can see waht's actually going on?
Also,
I'm having trouble with button events.
I entered some code in the actions palette after clicking on
the button in the stage. The code was:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(36);
Simple enough right?
Well the frames didn't play, it glitched for a second,
teasing me as if it would, but didn't.
I got this compilke error:
Mouse events are premitted only for button instances.
This was the error I got from clbeech's code after inserting
it on the first frame in the actions layer.
Expected a feild name '.' operator.

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