My keyboard and softkey lights are always going off and on. I don't think it's the rom. Just the D2 bug. Very annoying I know. Mine done it stock and pre-root
Weird - I never had problems with it with squidly - seemed to always work.
But, I found a DX thread that was having backlight issues similar and the fix was to lock it and unlock it. For some reason that seems to have worked for now.