Help with button PLEASE!

Hi everyone,

I am trying to create a simple button in flash out of one line of text. My button is more of a text link like this “objective”. The problem is, that the user has to move there mouse of each letter for the mousevoer effects to work…

The simple solution would be to create a rectangle underneath the text so that the mouse over area is larger…

however… I have a background image on the flash movie, there fore the rectnalge needs to be tranparent, is the possible??

Thanx in advance