Mouse trail problem

Hi all,

I’m trying to make a mouse trail for an AS3 project (horrible I know, but client wants it…), where the mouse pointer leaves a trail of stars behind as you move the cursor around.

I’ve got it working fine by adding little movieclips to the stage onMouseMove, but the problem I’m having is that they are interfering with all the navigational buttons I’ve got on the rest of the page, (all of which have MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, and MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP event Listeners added to them) When you try and click or rollover them, their events aren’t getting triggered properly because the mouse trail stars are always directly under the pointer, so presumably those are getting in the way.

Any ideas how I can get around this?