Flash Buttons- "Over" option not overlapping other buttons

Hi,
How do you make the "over" for buttons universally appear on top? When I made 4 flash buttons side by side, i am wanting to make it so that when you hover over one of the buttons a rectangle expands to show a description of that button- this rectangle should be large enough to cover over the other three buttons but for some reason the other buttons are still visible over the rectangle. I have made it so the top button layer is at the top and then the 2nd button underneath that so on...however when i hover over the 2nd button, the rectangle description box doesn't cover over the first button. How would I be able to make it so that the "over" rectangles are always covering all three other buttons?
as you can see below, this is when i hover over the second button, the rectangle isnt able to cover the first button.
Please is there a solution to this? I am wanting it to work very much like when you hover over icons similar to rollover for websites.
I appreciate anyone that can help.

Yes for some reason in AS2 you can't use swapDepths() directly with Buttons—however most of us don't use buttons because they are so twitchy and weird.
If you do want to use real buttons and you do want to swap their depths you can use this code:
Button.prototype.swapDepths = MovieClip.prototype.swapDepths;
You just need that once at the beginning of your code. It tells Flash that Buttons know what MovieClips know about swaping depths. I've used it in a few tests, but in general I don't use buttons. Instead I use MovieClips.

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> my own imported flash button to a page on my site.
>
> If I select a button within DW, and click the edit
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> with
> the option of linking the button. If I use my own
button, clicking edit
> just
> puts me into Flash.
>
> I don't want to use the "getURL" within flash because it
insists on too
> many
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>
> Even in code view there is no hint as to a link
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> even
> fudge around with the code!
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS.--Adobe: maybe offer a "suggested username" when
registering for your
> forums - not really my preferred choice of nick, but got
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> attempts to choose one.
>
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