Static text as mask doesn't work

I'm creating a button that uses static text as both content
and as a
mask (to create an inner shadow effect). The static text is
in a
symbol. It looks perfect in the IDE, but when I test the
movie or
publish it, the mask doesn't work. I originally had the text
in a
graphic symbol and that caused the mask to be completely
ignored. I
changed the symbol to a MovieClip, and that behaves
differently. The
mask is no longer ignored, but now the mask layer itself
appears and
covers up the other layers.
I've googled for this problem and have seen many comments
about it. The
typical solutions seem to be to convert the text to a symbol
(already
done) and use static text (already done). Yet it still
doesn't work.
I'm using Flash MX 2004.
Please help. Thanks.

apply it with actionscript,
make your text a movieclip and give it a name like "textClip"
then
make your mask a movieclip and give it an instance name like
"textMask" and use this code
textClip.setMask(textMask);
to disable the mask with actionscript use:
textClip.setMask(null);
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