List Scroller Is Covering My Content

I am writing a desktop AIR application, and I have a spark List whose purpose is to display images with some statistics embeded in them. The problem that I am running into is that the scroller in the List is covering some of the statistics on the edge of the image and part of a button. I assumed in Flex/AIR that scrollbars would lie outside of the content, or that content would be rescaled and displayed so that the content is not affected by the scroller. Apparently I am wrong. Is there a method or property that can be set on a List to force the scroller to lie "outside" of the content?

Thanks!