Losing focus because of html link in textfield

I’m creating an interactive U.S. map that renders specific factory info in popups (all in flash).
I used the drawing api to create the background of the popups and then I dynamically position textfields over them for the content (from xml). The textfield is set to htmlText and has a single link at the bottom of each popup. The problem is associated with the background mc using an onRollOut to hide itself and the textfiled, which works fine until you roll over the html link. Is there any way to prevent the onRollOut event from triggering on that link rollover?
For the time being, I have coded an _alpha=0 hotspot over the html link, but I’m wondering if there is a cleaner way.

edit: maybe this will help - shrugs
http://team.mixmedia.com/index.php?title=textfield_setfocus_in_flash&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1