Hit Tests Effects?!?!

im starting an interactive menu with a freemoving movie clip (aka hero) anyways i know all about hit tests, and collision but unfortunately i cannot find out how to make it so that movie clip (hero) will stop before walking over movieclip (table)? is there a particular effect or am i using the wrong kind of collision detection?

before u answer keep in mind ive already done X/Y axis collison for the perimeter of my “world”. any help would be appreciated, preferably here, instead of a link to sum tutorial.

Thanx