Funky Problem with Text into Buttons

For a site that Im updating, I am turning 'text' into buttons. Since Flash has a

Basicall;
1) type the text
2) convert to graphic symbol
3) convert to button
4) edit button, by placing a graphic square over text with alpha/opacity of 0%. Reason is flash's inherent problem with just turning text into buttons (the sensitivity area is too small)
5) Add actionscript to the button
6) publish movie.

What happens is that now the "button" isn't working. It behaves like a text on the stage. No "hand" cursor over it and of course, no "script" being executed.

Any reason why this is happening.

Also, if I "highlight" that should-be-a-button text, double clicking on it causes the text to disappear.

it's cuz you have "selectable" text.

thanks. for some reason, flash was defaulting to dynamic text instead of static text.

Why are you converting it to a graphic symbol first?

And also by putting the square in the hit keyframe only it doens't need any alpha so yuo get better performance.

/Mirandir