Help with buttons within buttons

Question

I am trying to get stop and play buttons for the background
music of my site to work within an animated rollover state of a
separate button. When I put the stop and play buttons into the
rollover animation they effect the hit state of the button they are
inside, how do I get around this? If you look at
www.thepixelplaypen.com/site you will see the menu bar at the
bottom. If you click on the references button (the 3d thought
bubble) i have directed it to how I want the page to look and work
when the music bar is 'rolled over'.

Answer 1

I've look at the site but am not sure what you mean. 1st I
don't know what the music bar is. Are you talking about the menu
bar when it's blank and minimized? Because when I go over that it
jumps from expanding to its full form to back to its minimized
state over and over.
I think what you need is something a little more involved
than the over/out states buttons give you.
I would say a two state movie clip with a variable that flags
on and off for the menu. Have the "toggle" turn off when moved out
from the menu, but not when over the music switch. For example, a 2
second delay that tests for the toggle being off, and the music
button turns it on on over...
Hope that helps...