Instead lets take a key from the Invisible Hotspot Button lesson, and create a transparent button that, while invisible, will still be the key vehicle to control how the scene reacts to mouseovers.
On a new layer inside the movie clips stage, draw a circle that overlaps the edges of the cutout. The color doesnt matter, though Ive made mine white for contrasts sake. Set the Alpha to 0% to make it wholly transparent.


