Amber light won't work, green still does

I've encountered an odd problem, albeit not that serious. When I first plug my magsafe power adapter in the light on the magnet part turns green, then instead of turning to amber as it previously did it simply goes off. The computer is showing that it is charging in the menu bar. I haven't been able to fully charge it yet, and when I do I will post a reply to see if the light turns green when it has a full charge, if so I guess the little led burned out.

Yes, the green light goes on when the battery is fully charged, so it must be that the amber light is simply dead. Quite rare, I would imagine, LED's are usually pretty resilient.

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so i have a mid-2009 macbook pro: 13-inch, 2.26Ghz.
it was running 2GBs of RAM until this afternoon when i upgraded it myself to 3GBs with a 2GB stick.
i followed the instructions from apple to the absolute letter. however now, my keyboard lights aren't working. but it's funny... usually in direct light, the Fn keys that control the keyboard lights won't allow you to adjust the light, right? but they will for me, except there's no light to adjust.
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sadly... no success
i followed the instructions exactly; restarting and all. no luck. i did hold the buttons though... is it supposed to be a hold, or a quick "hit"?
i saw your post about a better look, so i opened the back again and took a better picture.
http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd457/jakemoney/IMG4175.jpg?t=1284811603
you can see the connector just below. i tried, again, to make it go in. it fits, but i can't get it to stay. that must be the job of a professional. i can't do anymore now - i'm too involved, and i'm worried i may break more than just some stupid backlighting on my keyboard.
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I have been sent a new plusnet TG582n router after my old one broke and now my wireless printer won't work.
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