Keyboard backlighting will never turn off

Heya guys and girls. Thanks ahead of time for your help. I was just about to go to sleep tonight as I had just started a large download. I proceeded to turn down my brightness all the way down....but for some reason I couldn't turn down my backlighting on my keyboard at all! I thought for some reason it could have gotten stuck in backlighting mode (makes no sense, but worth a shot) in windows, so I booted into windows and tried to turn it off, which didn't work.
Basically what happens in windows is if I press F8 a few times, the backlighting symbol appears to be greyed out with the little circle with a slash through it. If I spam the button, every once and a while it will not be greyed out and show me that my backlighting is infact full...But when i try to decrease it after it shows up, it goes back to being greyed out and the circle with the slash reappears.
In osx, F8-10 are greyed out with the circle/slash and spamming does nothing...
Let me know of any fixes/ideas you may have please!
Message was edited by: dentonw

bump. no one else is experiencing this? I fixed it with a shut down. I think when I go from windows to osx something gets messed up in between. Right now I'm in osx and i can't turn my backlit keyboard on (earlier i couldn't turn it off).

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