MBP keyboard permanently illuminated

Hi there.
Sorry if this question has already been answered. I've searched the forums but can only find stuff related to keyboards not illuminating.
My problem is that regardless of the ambient light conditions my keyboard is permanently illuminated. The F5 and F6 keys work as they should, but the keyboard does not respond to the ambient light. So if I turn the brightness right down so that the keys aren't lit at all, when it goes dark they don't light up. And if I crank the brightness right up when it's dark, they don't dim again when it gets light. I'd like to be able to set it, say, half way and have the sensor control when it is and isn't lit.
The screen does dim when I cover the iSight camera so I don't think that's the problem. The keyboard is set to respond to the ambient light in the System Prefs.
Any ideas?
Cheers
H
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Scott,
I'm not trying that again! When it restarted I got the flashing folder with question mark. I'd never seen that before so I just held down the power button til it powered down and I restarted as normal. I looked it up on the Apple website, found out what it means (can't find startup disk) and followed their advice to reset the PRAM. Except they said to hold cmd-opt-P-R until the second chime. So I did that only for the flashing folder to appear again.
This time I stuck in the install DVD and ran Disk Utility to repair the disk. I restarted as normal and there are no problems (so far), but the keyboard issue remains!
Thanks anyway,
H

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