charging/power light not on

[lazyboy0172]

I think the phone is charging... plugging it into the compuer allows me to sync and view files, but the orange light does not come on, and the backlight still goes off after 30 seconds, despite my settings while plugged into external power.
Is this a known bug or something that people have had occur often? and is there a fix?
using 3.5 (1.04)