Brightness control not working after sleep

Sometimes, after I close the lid for some time and then open the lid again (putting the computer to sleep?) the screen is very dim and the brightness controls don't work. Solution seems to be rebooting the computer. Apparently this problem has been around for a long time:
2009 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1147601?start=0&tstart=0
2007 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1119174?start=0&tstart=0
I'm on a (nearly) brand new five-thousand dollar MacBook Pro with the latest OS (Lion?) with all the software and firmware updates, and the laptop has been rebuilt twice by the genius bar at the Apple store due to a faulty solid state disk drive and a subsequent disk corruption issue. And, let me just throw in for any Apple engineers who might be listening, that if I close the lid (sleep?) when my laptop is fully charged, it will be dead, or nearly dead by the next day. I've got an $800 two year old Asus that I closed the lid on and came back to weeks later and it still had nearly a full charge (I opened it up and went right on working for a couple of hours). Very disappointing for a $5,000 computer! But I digress...
I'm sure the battery situation is hopeless, but is there any hope for a resolution to the brightness control?
And let me just say that I very much appreciate all the hard work and helpfullness of the good folks at the Apple store and on this forum. It's not your fault this $5,000 machine has such aggrivating shortcomings. It's like buying a Ferarri (yes, I admit...it's a Ferarri) with a door that won't open and windshield wipers that don't work. And you know what's worse is those TV commercials where the Mac's are smugly portrayed as such superior machines...OK, sorry...I'll stop. 
Off to reboot so I can see the screen...any help would be appreciated.

I have been having the issue of no brighness control when running windows through bootcamp for about 6 months now and have not found any applicable solution online.
While messing around trying to figure it out yet again I noticed that my monitor driver was signed by team viewer...
Sure enough clicking the roll driver back button resolved the issue by rolling the driver back to the Microsoft driver...
So long story short:
Right click "My Computer" click properties
Click device manager (lop left of window)
Expand Monitors section
Double Click monitor
Click driver tab
If the driver here is not signed by Microsot or Apple click the roll back button. My driver version is 6.1.7600.16385 (Driver date 6/21/2006)
Rolling this back instantly resolved my issue. I will now propagate this post to all the threads I saw regarding this issue.
I am running windows 7 x64 Ulti on a 15" rMBP.
Best of luck

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