Why won't my display backlight come on?

I have a unibody MacBook Pro purchased in late 2009.
Sometimes when I wake up my laptop I can see that the display has come on but the backlight that makes the display bright is not on. On other words, the screen is completely dark, but under the right lighting I can see that the LCD itself is on (windows are up, the cursor is moving around the screen) but there is no light making it all bright (i.e., the display backlight is off). When I put it to sleep and wait for the indicator light to start pulsing and then wake it up again it will off then come on, but of course I shouldn't have to do that.
Perhaps related or unrelated is my keyboard backlight also doesn't work. I can turn the brightness up and down using the F5 and F6 keys and the indicator will come up on the screen showing the brightness going up and down, but the keys themselves are not lit at all.
Was there a recall sent out about this issue? I do have AppleCare.
Thanks.

I have the same thing, not only my current Retina MacBookPro (Mountain Lion) but on my previous 2008 MacBook black (Lion). I find it very odd that I'd have the exact same issue on two different computers; there must have been a setting on the old one that got migrated to the new one somehow?

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