Movieclip menu problem

My menu(code is by scotty)has 3 movieclip buttons, with text.
I broke apart the text to change the color onMouseOver.

Problem is the button only works when the mouse
is pointed over the actual text, so it doesn’t work properly,
because the text is obviously very small.
I can’t put a “field” behind it, because it will become part
of the MC, and thus will change color.

Here’s the example: http://home.wanadoo.nl/inflicted/button.html

How could I work around this problem? Any suggestions?

thanks!

file is here: http://home.wanadoo.nl/inflicted/button.fla.zip