I'm trying to do a button within a button for my navbar. For this button, the bottom layer contains a movie clip that fades in when the primary button clip is moused over. Theres also a layer with a movieclip that contains all of the navbars actual buttons on top of the fade in clip, they extend through all 4 stages. I think i'm having a problem with which item is in focus, because either nothing happens when i click on them because the parent button steal the click, or when i bring the button clip out of the main button movie clip, and place it on top, flash focuses on the sub buttons, and fails to animated the bottom layer.

Is there a way to specify to keep the bottom clip on the _over stage, but still allow buttons which are placed above them to be clickable?