Preventing inadvertant mouse clicks

I have my own preloading and movie controller framework in
Flash which loads external Captivate movies and provides a single
set of customised interface controls with coroporate branding. One
of the custom buttons in the controller movie toggles a Help screen
on and off. The help screen is overlaid over the Captivate content.
I have set up the Captivate movies to allow the user to
proceed from one slide to the next by clicking a full screen
transparent button which pauses the movie halfway through and
continues when clicked, in addition to forward and back buttons.
The problem I have is that when the user clicks within the
Help screen (to close it) that click is picked up by the Captivate
movie underneath which unintentionally advances the Captivate movie
to the next slide. I have tried making a full screen transparent
button to use in the background of the Help screen to catch any
clicks and prevent them from being picked up by Captivate.
Unfortunately it seems Captivate catches it's clicks with a
global onMouseDown event or something rather than onPress or
onRelease on the actual button itself. I have tried setting the
captivate movieclip's "enabled" property to false when the help is
open, but it still catches the clicks.
This is a really frustrating problem. Any ideas?

Hi Larry,
I have a Flash movie which contains the navigation controls,
a preloader and the Help screen. It loads an XML file which tells
it which captivate movies are required, and then loads the
captivate movies into itself. The currently active Captivate movie
is controlled by the Flash navigation. So the navigation and Help
screen are part of the Flash controller.
Unfortunately even though you can place Flash movieclips over
the Captivate movie, there is no way to prevent the Captivate movie
underneath from picking up mouse clicks in the layer above. Not by
making it invisible, or by setting it's .enabled property to false
or by adding an invisible button element that completely covers it.
I did find one solution in the end, but it's not pretty. I
discovered that Captivate movies have in internal movieclip called
rdClickHandler_mc which seems to contain some of the interaction
listeners for the Captivate movie. So my solution is that when I
need to disable a Captivate movie, I copy all the properties of the
rdClickHandler_mc on to a local object, then set them to null. When
I need to make it active again the properties are copied back.
Hope this helps someone else, though if anyone has a better
solution I'd like to hear it.
Cheers,
Scott

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[0][0], [0][1], [0][2],
[1][0], [1][1], [1][2],
[2][0], [2][1], [2][2]
or any contiguous column/row with another tile stored in the array, meaning that the newly clicked tile only needs to be sharing a border with one of the tiles in the temp array but not necessarily with the last tile stored).
Question
     What is a clean, tidy way of programming this in AS3? Here are a couple portions of my code (although the mouse click event isn't finished/working correctly):
public function tileClick(e:MouseEvent):void
   var tile:Object = e.currentTarget;
   tileSelect.push(uint(tile.currentFrameLabel));
   selectArr.push(tile);
   if (tile.select.visible == false)
    tile.select.visible = true;
   else
    tile.select.visible = false;
   for (var i:uint = 0; i < selectArr.length; i++)
    if ((tile.rowN == selectArr[i].rowN - 1) ||
     (tile.rowN == selectArr[i].rowN) ||
     (tile.rowN == selectArr[i].rowN + 1))
     if ((tile.colN == selectArr[i].colN - 1) ||
     (tile.colN == selectArr[i].colN) ||
     (tile.colN == selectArr[i].colN + 1))
      trace("jackpot!" + i);
    else
     for (var ii:uint = 0; ii < 1; ii++)
      for (var iii:uint = 0; iii < selectArr.length; iii++)
       selectArr[iii].select.visible = false;
      selectArr = [];
      trace("Err!");

Andrei1,
     So are you saying that if I, rather than assigning a uint to the column and row number for each tile, just assigned a string to each one in the form "#_#" then I could actually just assign the "adjacent" array directly to it instead of using a generic object to hold those values? In this case, my click event would simply check the indexes, one at a time, of all tiles currently stored in my "selectArr" array against the column/row string in the currently selected tile. Am I correct so far? If I am then let's say that "selectArr" is currently holding five tile coordinates (the user has clicked on five adjacent tiles thus far) and a sixth one is being evaluated now:
Current "selectArr" values:
       1_0
       1_1, 2_1, 3_1
              2_2
New tile clicked:
       1_0
       1_1, 2_1, 3_1
              2_2
              2_3
Coordinate search:
       1_-1
0_0, 1_0, 2_0, 3_0
0_1, 1_1, 2_1, 3_1, 4_1
       1_2, 2_2, 3_2
              2_3
     Essentially what is happening here is that the new tile is checking all four coordinates/indexes belonging to each of the five tiles stored in the "selectArr" array as it tries to find a match for one of its own (which it does for the tile at coordinate 2_2). Thus the new tile at coordinate 2_3 would be marked as valid and added to the "selectArr" array as we wait for the next tile to be clicked and validated. Is this correct?

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