Snow leopard 10.6.2 Update

Updated yesterday on my MBP 13", the brightness seems different. e.g. the level it is set on seems brighter/duller than before?
might just be me and my eyes going funny 0_o..

The same thing happened to me! My computer came with Snow Leopard (it's the 13" Macbook Pro) and after installing the upgrade from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2 I noticed that the brightness decreased dramatically. I don't think it has anything to do with gamma as I tried to adjust that and it didn't really make that big a difference. I have now increased the brightness but I still think there might be something wrong with my laptop because I don't know if the update could decrease the brightness levels as they were the default levels, I hadn't changed them... It would seem strange somehow... I did install the update when I didn't have the computer connected to a power source, could that have caused this? Could installing the update again help? Or could I uninstall it somehow? This is my first Mac so I'm rather clueless about everything...

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