Satellite S55 BIOS update to 1.60 has a problem with UEFI keyboard backlight control

I recently updated my BIOS to version 1.60 from 1.50. The update went well. However now the setting for the keyboard backlight control will not hold my setting. I don't wish the backlight to illuminate as it will use up power. When I enter my UEFI and change the setting to "OFF", then save and exit, the keyboard illumination appears to operate as expected. However, following a Windows restart, or shutdown and boot, the UEFI setting resets to "TIMER" with "Backlight Lighting Time" set to 0. If I leave the mode set to "Timer", and set "Backlight Lighting Time" to 10, again the backlight appears to operate properly. But a reboot resets the time to 0. I thought possibly I was not saving and exiting UEFI properly. To test this, I change the setting for the "Internal USB3.0 Controller from "Enable" to "Disable", then also set the backlight control to "OFF", did a save/exit. I found that the USB3.0 remained disabled, but the backlight control again reset to "Timer". The BIOS update was provided by the Toshiba Service Station app as an optional update, so it should be the right one for my laptop. Any help would be appreciated.
My laptop is a Satellite S55-A5295 and is running Windows 8.1 with BIOS 1.60 and EC 1.20.

Thank you for your response. When I purchased the laptop, I also bought a 2-year repair plan with Geek Squad. I took the device to the tech and it was his opinion that there might be a bug in the BIOS I installed. I asked if we could retro the BIOS to a previous version and he told me he didn't recommend it as there are always risks when updating the BIOS. He said it wasn't worth it as the device was stable with no other known issues besides the keyboard lighting. He recommended I contact Toshiba support to document the problem. This I did. However, I was told by Toshiba I was beyond my complimentary support and would have to pay $49 to correct the issue. I agreed to purchase the support. The tech had me try various resets including the hardware reset button but to no avail. At this point the tech informed me that I can always press "Fn-z" to cycle the lights off after boot/restart, and that my support time was ending. I only hope that the problem is with the BIOS and not with hardware such as BIOS memory, and that a new firmware update will correct the problem. I appreciate this forum and the people that are trying to help others correct their problems. Please keep up the good work.

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