Play/Pause Key Troubles

The play/pause key on my macbook has quit working in the last few days. I use this key a lot and it's inability to function has proven to be frustrating. Though the key won't play or pause iTunes, it is not entirely unresponsive. When the backlight goes out just before the screen goes black, pressing the play/pause button still causes the backlight to come back on. All the other keys are working fine, including the skip forward/backward buttons immediately adjacent to the play/pause key. Any help would be much appreciated

Weird, just realized that it only happens when using QuickSilver to select a song. Still, it didn't used to do this.

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