SIL behaving strangely and battery oddness

Hey all,
I'm a proud owner of a 5.5 MacBook Pro but I'm stumbling into some oddness about the status indicator light :/
I noticed right now that it's not lighting up when I'm actually using my Mac, if I close the lid it'll go into the flashing mode but once opened again (or restarted/shutdowned and started up) it vanish again...
As I had stumbled upon the Apple Support page about resetting the SMC I tried those steps and it seems like they had no effect, is there anything I can do about it?
Another problem I noticed is that my battery is about only 140 cycles yet and still it's already at 85-% of the maximum initial capacity, is that normal? It was nice to have a 6h+ out of power, those days when I get to 4h30 is a conquest :P
Thanks for your attention

Piva,
I'm not going to try and address your lighting however you can try to do a PRAM reset. Here are instructions for it and resetting the SMC for a MBP.
_SMC RESET_
• Shut down the computer.
• Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
• Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
• Release the power button.
• Attach the computers power cable.
• Press the power button to turn on the computer.
_PRAM RESET_
• Shut down the computer.
• Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
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• Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
• Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
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