Custom cursor on roll over

Hi guys,

I'm trying to get my cursor to change to a custom MovieClip when a certain area is rolled over. My code works but as soon as the rollover is fired the rollout is also fired which creates a loop back and forth the two listeners so the cursor looks like its flickering. I think it may be something to do with the startDrag/stopDrag i have on the custom cursor as i don't get this effect if i remove them. This seems like it should be really straight forward to do but i've tried a few different approaches and keep getting the same effect. What am i missing?

Cheers!

Matt

Code as follows:

var customCursor_mc:CustomCursor = new CustomCursor();

activeArea_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, handleEvents);

activeArea_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, handleEvents);

activeArea_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handleEvents);

function handleEvents(e:MouseEvent):void

{

  switch(e.type)

  {

  case "click":

       trace("clicked");

  break;

  case "rollOver":

       trace("over");

       Mouse.hide();

       customCursor_mc.startDrag(true);

       addChild(customCursor_mc);

  break;

  case "rollOut":

       trace("out");

       Mouse.show();

       customCursor_mc.stopDrag();

       removeChild(customCursor_mc);

  break;

  }

}