leaders/multileaders obscured when hidden lines enabled

[Friendlyfire]

Hello,
I am trying to figure out how to stop AutoCAD LT 2010 from hiding my leaders and multileaders behind elevated solid objects, when using the hide command (or plotting with hidden lines enabled). I can find no way to elevate those items, nor any command to set a general override (like the HIDETEXT setting). Leader has a vertex Z property. but when I set it the darn thing always resets to 0 immediately. Neither leader nor multileader have an elevation property.

I see two workarounds:
a) place the annotations down in paperspace
b) move all solid objects below the base plane

advice?

[KJB]

Would the TEXTTOFRONT command help? It works for dimensions also.