Keyboard backlight off when pause ITunes.

got a new MacBook Pro recently and just now noticing something pretty odd...
if iTunes is playing and I hit the play/pause key (F8) the entire keyboard will go dark, but only if I'm pausing. it doesn't do it when I'm hitting the button to resume a song, only when I'm using it to pause one. the backlight sometimes takes minutes to come back on, at random, and sometimes it doesn't and I just have to turn it back on myself.
I've found that it's not just the shortcut keys — the backlighting turns off even when I go into iTunes and press the spacebar to pause or just press the actual button in iTunes. pretty odd, haha.
any ideas?
thanks!

I had this issue too and figured it out. Please see:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10411273&#10411273

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