The default LinkButton that Flex provides does not have the following capabilities turned on:
1. Showing a Hand cursor when you hover on the LinkButton
2. Handling the Mouse Enter keys to fire a click event
I had a need where I needed these two capabilities all across the board and hence decided to make this as a component that I can use easily. I am uploading the source code as a PDF until I get to host a website where I would be able to upload source code.
Simple and useful.
Everything in your was done just right when extending LinkButton component from Flex SDK, good job!