radio button customisation

[flashhugh]

Hi, I'm a complete novice to flash but was wondering if it is possible to set up an a-z list in the form of 1 long horizontal bar with only 1 character selectable at a time - I used a line of radio buttons to achieve this already as they were 'good to go' but now would like to display the characters A-Z with the selected letter highlighted by colour if selected, plain if unselected and also will need to be able to have a few blanks for unused letters.
As I've already got the script working as a radiobutton group, is there a way to make this work graphically whilst retaining the radio button coding?
I'm using AS2 by the way.
Thanks in advance.

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[flashhugh]

Ok, it might be best to create this as an array of custom buttons but where do I start?
I'm trying to achieve something like this: