Yes,

btw, I understood how I shouldn't be putting actionscript inside objects and
had moved it to the main timeline's 1st Frame after making proper adjustments
to code, but of course that didn't help either.

Anyhow, someone elsewhere explained to me how one can't have any nested
rollovers in Flash. Well, least not controlled through actionscript. Also, this
person was kind enough to provide a good link which I'm looking up right now.

thanks MotionMaker btw for responding, :-)

Yeah sure,

http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/buttoncapturing/

not entirely sure how much it'll help me in as far as what I want to do, but
I'd already thought of a cheating way similar to how I used to do it. Message
me if you'd like....otherwise, I hope it at least helps you. 'best,