Confused about enable

So I have a game where the pause key cannot do the easy Time.timeScale = 0 trick, as I still need the player capable of moving about the map.

But I have various yield WaitForSeconds operations going on, and I have Detonators, that I want frozen when the pause button is pressed.

So I try things like this for the Detonator:

gameObject.Find("explosion").GetComponent("Detonator").enabled = false;

And things like this for scripts that contain WaitForSeconds:

gameObject.Find("badguy").GetComponent("BadGuyActions").enabled = false;

Neither of these seem to "work". I can pause in the editor and see that yes, in fact, the Scripts are disabled, but the Detonator explosion continues to run and the yield WaitForSeconds continues to count on.

Am I misunderstanding the enable property?

If so, what can I use to stop these things during game-pause? I don't want them invisible (so I don't want to use active=false).

Thanks in advance!