I am creating a drop down menu using the tsunami tutorial from this site (a very cool effect btw!)

I have assigned button actions to each of the menu items in the tsunami. The drop down is a simple two frame movie clip. In the first frame there is a button that covers only the header of the menu that tells the movie to go to the second frame.

the second frame has the header and the tsunami menu. the hit box covers both of these with the command that on roll out return to frame 1.

sounds good in theory. here is the problem: if the hit button in frame 2 is on top of the tsunami menu, the tsunami buttons don't work. if the tsunami is on top, the hit button doesn't work.

Obviously this is the wrong way to go about it. is there some actionscript that would keep the movie in the second frame based on x and y coordinates of the user's mouse?

Please be specific. I only sound like I know what I'm talking about.

thanks.