startDrag and button conflict

[PixelPimp]

Has anyone encountered any problems with startDrag and buttons? Essentially, Flash is ignoring my buttons. If I remove the startDrag event, it recognizes them. It's quite odd and very frustrating.

The startDrag is called as such :
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scroller.onClipEvent (load) {
startDrag("drag", true, 0, 0, 775, 0);
}
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"scroller" contains "drag" and "content". The latter of which is several images used as a photo gallery.

"drag" is nothing more than an indicator, like crosshairs (+). The button "menu" is completely separate of the "scroller" instance and yes, I have defined the hit frame of the button. Both items are on _root but raising depth doesn't seem to help. I've even tried using a loadMovieNum to load it into a completely different level. Still nothing. Any ideas? Does StartDrag() hijack the mouse disabling other buttons? HELP, I'm over budget!

[PixelPimp]

FYI: This seemed to work...
I put this on the "drag" MC timeline:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x = _root._xmouse;
}

All I was really after was the xPos of "drag" anyway, but there is a definite bug to having a startDrag and buttons competing for mouse attention.