So here's the thing: my drop down menu works on it's own and when overlapping other Flash objects in the same swf, but I need it to work while overlapping html content visually. The main nav's on top as a separate swf; the coded content follows and is positioned absolutely with css up and over the white space of the swf - which is probably why the buttons aren't working :-/

Problem #1: the white space needed to allow for the longest parts of the drop down sometimes block out that portion of the (html) content completely (but not always).

Problem #2: the (swf) links overlapping the content don't work

Is there a way to set on(Rollover) in actionscript so that only that particular movie clip becomes dominant (functions over the html content)? Or something in html/css that would establish some kind of conditional hierarchy? A way to force the Flash document background to be transparent? I'm stuck...