Macbook Pro display fails to dim fully

MacBookPro5,1; 2009, 10.5.8
When I manually dim from the keyboard key, there's a residual light spot in middle, roughly at the last brightness level before full fade.  Grabber doesn't capture what I see, so can't post an example.
When I'm in full dim (with lit spot in middle) and go to lower right corner (to sleep the display), the brighter spot disappears for a fraction of a second, then re-appears as grey.  Same when waking it up again.
Known problem? Hardware? Software?
Nothing to worry about or sign of imminent display failure?

I have this problem also and have found that nothing seems to prevent the display from dimming, even while viewing a quicktime movie the display will automatically dim regardless of Energy Saver settings, just seems inoperative in controlling the dimming behavior of the display.

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