Inconsistancy of illuminated key board in low light conditions

I have several accounts on my power book and my administrator account has onyl a dim key board in low light while the other accounts have a bright light. I have checked to turn this function on under keyboard preferances. Does anyone know what I can do to get this to work in my account. It does not seem to be a hardware problem, since it works fine in other accoounts. is there any function which controlls the brightness of the keys in low light conditions???

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Hey Annar99,
I found a few articles that might help with the issue you're encountering. These first two are if the Bluetooth keyboard you're using is the one that came with your iMac. The first is a general "how to" for setting up your Apple Wireless keyboard, while the second one is for troubleshooting if the advice in the first article isn't working:
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Morning pimpahrella,
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The keyboard backlight appears to behave incorrectly (on Mac computers that have this feature).
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Anyone know how to turn the keyboard lights on. I've tried the system preferences/ keyboard & mouse/ keyboard and there is no box to tick or untick, not even the option to get them lit.
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Hi pal. Unfortunately, our keyboards do not... have a backlit keyboard. =(
This was one of the negative aspects of the 12-inch PowerBook. The trade-off to ultraportability was there wasn't a way (why, I don't know) to incorporate the backlit keyboard feature into the 12-inch line.
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