enabling mouse events

I am going to start leaving clips of action script here for me to review and use easily.
I am an as3 newbie and I need to organize my notes....
This seems to be the best way to do it.

This may not be that exciting to read...

I had to enable and disable mouse events so that a slideshow would not error because of clicking the button so fast.

first I tried myMC.mouseEvent = false;
(for some reason this did not work)

so what a co-worker said to try...
the movieclip which had both the buttons embedded...
myHousingMC.mouseChildren = false;
myHousingMC.mouseEnabled = false;

this actually worked even better - i could enable many buttons at once if they are in the same movieClip...

Thank you ickyNickle!...I mean dime... lol