Keyboard button inactive with Leopard

After installing Leopard the other day, my tray open/close button on the keyboard is completely unresponsive and i can't seem to solve the issue - anyone else come across this or have any solutions? The only way to close the tray at the moment seems to be to manually push it in, which surely isn't ideal. Thanks, Matt.

I would try resetting the PRAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
and maybe even the SMC:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US

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Thu Nov 8 14:06:39 2007
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x00B435A3): "OSMalloc_Tagrele(): refcnt 0\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/osfmk/kern/kalloc.c:613
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at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch(2.0.21)@0xb3c000->0xb5cfff
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