couple AS3 questions.

I am having trouble going through the tutorial videos available to me finding appropriate code examples of these things, so I was hoping you could point me in the direction of a good resource, or throw me a bone or two!

1. Hit State movieClip communicating to actual button: Rather than having my hitStates within my button mc, I am adding a layer to the main timeline with the transparent hit states that will communicate to my buttons. I have the button coding and functionality figured out, but am not sure on the appropriate syntax to let the hit state area communicate to the button.

2. e.target: I posted some code last week that seemed a bit excessive, and it was suggested i used the e.target method to abbreviate a lot of the duplicate coding... there was a link to a resource, but it failed to open, and I would just like a little direction on how these base codes should look, so that I can work off them.

Jayne covers a lot, but I have yet to find these two in their volumes, so if you could lend a hand that would be great! thanks.

best.