HitTest, Rollover, Collisions, etc

Okay. I’m just asking because this is so frustrating. I don’t get why these things can’t be combined.

On rollovers, it is activated when the mouse rolls over a pixel where the vector shape inside a movieclip is present.

On hittest, it checks to see the the bounding boxes of two movieclips are overlapping.

Honestly, hittest is so primitive to me and I could make a prototype of my own to do the same thing. I’d like to have it kind of be like rollovers for the hittest, using the vector shapes.

Any prototypes, etc. out there to get this job done??