Text doesn't activate when button underneath is rolled over.

I have 2 layers in my flash site. 1 with my nav buttons which work fine. But when I put the text in a layer above to identify the button, the button action won't activate when over the text. But when I move my cursor not on an area of the text but still over the button, it does work. Help! I got one in another part of the site to work fine, but these don't. They are set-up exactly the same as far as I can tell.

Are you sure? Since you use the term "classic" I assume you are using a newer version of Flash than I have. But classically speaking... static textfields do have the selectable option (look for the "Ab" icon in the panel)

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