Caps Lock Light Broken. Well sort of.

About a week ago my caps lock light got very faint, I actually have to be in a completely dark room to see it. I assumed the LED had gone out or the keboard had become faulty. I was going to take it to my apple store to have it looked at when something wierd happened. I started my computer in windows (through bootcamp) and all of a sudden the light on the caps lock key worked fine. So, I can say with certainty this is not a hardware issue, as it only occurs in OSX. Anyone got any ideas to solve this, or know what is even going on?
Thanks

That is strange ...even to have the led at a state in between 'on' or 'off'. Have you tried running your standard maintenance scripts or reset the SMC?
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