Problems using the bone tool, CS4?

Okay so I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out. I want to use the bone tool to make a leg animation. First I create a new symbol called Leg. I double click the Leg in the library which opens it in leg window. Then I grab the circle tool in the tool bar and make the thigh. Then I make another circle for the leg. Now the problem is when I click the bone tool to connect them, it won't let me connect the thigh with the leg! Can somebody tell me why this is happening? (This is all done on one layer).
However when I click the circle tool and then click object drawing tool in the bottom of the tool bar I then can connect both the thigh and the leg with the bone tool. Problem is when I use this feature if I want to move the shapes to revise it a little they wont seperate. The thigh is stuck to the leg.
Some please please help me.. this is making me angry!
I want to be able to draw a leg with a couple shapes and be able to connect the bone tool to one shape to the other. Thanks Rossi

Following article covers how to add bones to Symbols:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/using/WS14DAFDB4-B9AD-4080-A29F-022128CCFD39.html

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