Blur stage

Hello all.

I’m trying to blur the stage using an onPress event. The movie clip that I’m trying to apply the event to is inside another movieclip. Here’s the path from the stage:

Stage
-home (this movie clip resides on the stage when the movie loads)
-interfaceNav (same deal with this movie clip only this is inside “home”)
-vehicle (the “vehicle” movieclip is being dynamically attached to the stage using an onRollOver event when the user hovers over interfaceNav).
hover1 (the movie clip i’m trying to apply the onPress event to)

i have the following code set up for the blur effect
//:::BLUR THE STAGE::://
/*import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
var blurred:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(10, 10, 4);
var myFilters:Array = [blurred];
function blurStage(){
this.filters = myFilters;
}

i’m having problems applying the blurStage() function to the hover1 movieclip so that the entire stage blurs.

I know this is really confusing but my client wants changes to the flash app.

I’m using AS2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

~A