Button hit area doesn't work with dynamic text box

Hi,

I’m trying to do a project involving loading dynamic text via xml.
I followed this tutorial (http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/examples/squirrelfinder.htm) and adapt it so that the buttons are now linking to url’s.

In order to do that, I had to change the .text property to .htmlText in the actionscript.
However, now the dynamic text box doesn’t recognize when the mouse is over it. I mean, the whole button has a hit area that works apart from the place where the text is overlapping it.
I’ve seen others referring this issue but I haven’t found a solution yet.
Does anyone have one?

Thanks