I completely understand event.target vs. event.currentTarget, maybe I was not so clear in my post. Any other takers. We have reasons for not testing event.currentTarget in our application, of course I have extremely simplified the example for the sake of this list.
Anyhow, I am wondering if this is normal behavior and why scale nine formatting on an CSS background image would make a difference on the event.target. Can anyone explain this to me. I have read and re-read over the documentation about image assets, scale nine, & events for both flex 2 what is there for flex 3 and still do not understand what would be causing this. Adobe guys? Should that happen? I think I might file a bug.

