Orange light on shift key

May sound stupid but I just noticed that the dot on my shift key is lit with an orange light (like how the caps lock key has the green one when toggled on). I don't know what this means or how to make it stop. Can anyone explain?

I wonder if there is a defect in the shift key it's self that is allowing some of the keyboard back lighting to come through.
This makes some good sense. You should be able to test this theory out by "Turning keyboard backlighting on and off" (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8560.html).
Also, I understand that:
Restarting and sleeping doesn't help. When it's in sleep mode, the orange light is still on.
Did you ever try the actual SMC reset from "Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)" (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964)?
Also, I know you provided the model info, but also maybe you could elaborate on the light as from the question:
What orange dot on the shift key?
- Just trying to get a better understanding of the problem and narrow down what might be going on.

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