Simple buttons overlaying movie button

Using Flash MX Professional 2004...
I'm trying to create a menu using movie clips of sliding
images with roll-over and roll-out effects. Within those movies I'd
like to overlay simple submenu item buttons.
My work-in-progress
can be viewed here. In the example, when rolled-over, the
leftmost image displays a button labeled 'Menu Item 1'. However,
the 'Menu Item 1' button does not respond to my mouse roll-over.
Is there a way to accomplish this? I hope I have been clear
enough.
Thanks...

I don't see any rollover effect on anything except the images
that display aunder the menu buttons. If the movie loads over them,
then I wouldn't expect to see them change with a rollover... mainly
because they aren't visible at that point.
You may have to explain the problem a little better,because
for what I can see, there isn't one, except that you possibly don't
have content for the other buttons yet.
Your problem, whatever it might be, is most likely in your
code, so if you can show the code and explain what you want it to
do, then it will be easier to assess what might be wrong.

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