Movieclip acting as button not quite working

Hi all,
I’m trying to make a movieclip act as a button (I’ve done this before and it works for the most part) My problem this time is that the movieclip is simply a piece of text, and light text at that, so when I rollover or press the movieclip, the mouse has a hard time seeing where the movieclip is because it is thin type. When using buttons, you can have a hit state, but what do you do if you are using a movieclip? The movieclip is on a translucent background, so i can’t fake giving it a background so it has something to hit on.
Any ideas?