Help with making buttons work within mc/shape tween

hi,
i've created a movie clip for a navigation link named
"Products". when you mouse over the "Products" mc, the movie clip
has a sub-navbar that tweens horizontally out of the movie clip.
when the subnav is done coming out and stops, i have buttons that
appear that i would like the user to be able to click on.
everything works out fine until i roll over the button the rollover
state doesn't work. i have a feeling it is because the button is
nested, but not sure.
i set up a simple example here:
http://kurtcom.com/examples/jeannettes_damn_navbar.html
let me know if you want me to email you the file as well,
thanks!

A single Path would just be an out line of your three shapes. As you knew to create the above using vectors requires three shape layers. Shapes can only be filled with a single color or pattern. They also can be stroked and have layer styles added. Additional strokes may be need to highlight the green area like you show above..
With CS6 you can merge shape layers into a single shape layer your result would be a single color shape however the merged paths would be the outlining path you seem to want. you can save the path in the path palette when the merged shape is the active layer.
adding an empty layer and stroking the merged path,
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