Button removed with removeChild() gets re-added in it's over state - actionscript-3

I have a SimpleButton on the stage, and in the click event for it, I remove it using removeChild(). When re-adding the button, it gets re-added in it's "over" state, not the "up" state as expected.
I'm pretty sure it's a bug, so I've filed a JIRA: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-31445, my question is now on how to fix it, if anybody's had a similar experience.
What I've tried:
using visible = false instead works, but I'd prefer to remove it off the stage altogether as the game I'm working on can have a lot of popups/screens.
Firing the mouse_out event manually - doesn't work, and in any case, the mouse_out event fires as expected (perhaps before resetting to the up state, it makes a check to see if it's added to the stage, finds out it's not, then quits early)
Resetting the stage focus - I thought it was a problem with the stage focus, as you were losing focus when the button was hidden, but resetting it didn't fix it.
I could temporarily swap the over and up state when it's hidden, but that seems like an ugly fix.

I've been Having this problem as well, removing one button and adding another in response to an Mouse up event on a separate sprite.. IE the mouse isn't over either of the buttons at the time, But when the first button (the one with the problem) was previously removed the mouse was indeed over it so it hadn't received a mouseOut event and retained itself in the over state. Using visibility to work round this which is ok for my needs BUT the alternative answer would be to replace with a new instance of the button before adding it to the Display List.

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My original answer:
This is sort of a workaround but shouldn't be too difficult to implement. Hopefully someone comes along with a native API solution.
Run your code you posted
Then make cursor invisible
Then place your custom cursor at the mouse position (optional if you don't mind the cursor just disappearing)
On MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE remove your custom cursor, and make the cursor visible again.
I doubt you need me to write this code for you, but if you think this method would work for you, and you have a problem implementing this technique, let me know.
If you're worried about different systems having different mouse icons and then suddenly getting your custom one for a split second, the easy solution there is to just always use your custom cursor. You can design it to look exactly as you like; either mimic Windows OS or make it unique.

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I'm creating a game in Flash CS5.5, basically a version of "Who wants to be a millionaire?".
I have an answerDisplay Class which contains an answer text. Answer texts can become rather long, and since I have limited screen space I check for very long texts and if a text is too big I add a UIScrollbar besides the text field.
Which works nicely, except for one thing - when the user drags the scroll tab, the text scrolls fine. When the user clicks one of the scrollbar arrows the text field also scrolls fine, as long as the button is clicked, but as soon as the mouse button is released the click event of the containing answerDisplay class is fired, which leads to my program wrongly thinking the user had selected the answer while he just tried to scroll.
I tried catching this via e.target and/or e.currenttarget, but it's no use, I never get a reference to the scrollbar, so I'm never sure if the user clicked one of the arrows or if he genuinely clicked the answer to select it.
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You might also want to check the event phase:
For more details on event phase, check grapefrukt's answer
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Also, you could add event listener to the UIScrollbar in your answerDisplay Class to capture the event and then suppress it via stopPropagation().
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http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/create-page-flip-effect-html5-canvas
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Let Drag = mouse drag/mouse move, down = mouse down, release = mouse release events respectively.
Initialize your flag variable as false. When a drag event is encountered it becomes true. Otherwise it remains false. As long as it is false when the mouse release event occurs it can be treated as a click. Thats the basic principle behind using mousedown and mouseup as a click event.
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If you want a more detailed explanation on the page flip technique then check this out. Helped me lot.