Macbook Pro - Lion Keyboard Illumination

Overall the upgrade to 10.7 worked very well, I'm posting this here as it's specifically a Macbook issue. Everything works great except that I can no longer disable keyboard illumination? I had it disabled pre-install and now its on and will not turn off. Hardly the end of the world but has anyone else seen this and have a fix for it?

I would recomend reseting the SMC.  I looked into resetting pram/nvram but they did not control the issues..
Take a look at this KB http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 the smc directly controls keyboard illumination.
I hope this works for you.

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