Thirsting for help with content resizing

hello, hope you all slept well last night …
If you could please take a look at the fla, (2004MX) you’ll see the content box and the lines around it interact on a button release.
on release of the text button, the image inside the lines the content box - i had to remove the photo due to the tny file size restrictions here on the forum, but you’ll get the point i hope - is supposed to squash, then expand, and in tandem the lones are supposed to flex with it
the problem is on my testing server is that the lines are all cut off and the box doesnt move.
this is because the stage area is limited to everything inside the box and not outside of it.
what is the way forward to ensure the lines and box movement can be seen on the screen ?
i feel that i need to expand the stage size in order to show the box flexing, but what of those lines ? how to include them - is it with a stage.width tip perhaps ?
thanks for any sugestions.
-r