Problem displaying text on shapes

Ok I have driven my self to mental exhaustion trying to figue out how to display text on a shape in the shapes example. I'm trying to make a sudoku game and I need a way to display the numbers on the boxes and make some editable and others not. I have been working on this for about ten weeks and I can't take it anymore. Normally I wouldn't ask for help on a forum but this is my last hope. So if anyone has any tips on the subject... or building a sudoku puzzle I would really appriciate them.

[505 byte] By [AngelsVampa] at [2007-11-27 5:27:51]
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Use a grid of square labels. Set the text for the starting labels. Alternatively, but I haven't tried this, you could use square text areas and make the starting ones uneditable.
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