wmode = transparent w/_xmouse

I have a couple swfs overlapping each other on an HTML page. The top swf is a feedback box that displays feedback from the other swf on ther page which is an interaction.

The problem I'm having is displaying a custom cursor when the user is over the feedback box. For this I need to use _xmouse and _ymouse so the cursor knows where it needs to be. In wmode transparent, when I move the cursor off of an object, such as the feedback box, Flash seems to no longer be able to tell where the mouse is.

I tried putting a solid fill covering the whole feedback box swf area and then set it to an _alpha of 0 so Flash would alway be over something, and that works, except now the interaction doesn't work.

Any thoughts?

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