hi rockgirl84,

if you are new to flash this is a pretty tricky item to cover.

the options to look at would certainly be switch/case statements or otherwise a tree of if/else statements.

Due to the lack of examples I would advise you to search the web on tutorials using these if/else statements and switch/case statements.

You will need to define active and non-active buttons example: curentTargetActive:boolean = false;

then follow up on if (curentTargetActive == true){ do something } and the foreach !curentTargetActive you will need to respond to an eventListener. 

this information may be blurry but logical.

will keep you posted.

Happy coding!