The only lights on mine are the lcd screen and the eject button. Is this normal and had anyone ever replaced the lights for the other buttons? I wonder if they are similar to the climate control lights I just did....

Those fellas are going to be little tiny LEDs microsoldered onto a lighting board behind the face panel. The likelyhood of successfully soldering new LEDs in place, if in fact yours are dead is pretty low. Best bet is to just learn to control it by feel or get a new unit. You'd have to be a SWEET solderer to do a decent job on those tiny connections.

Ask Santa for a new CD player.

thanks, I need to work on my brail skills I guess. I wonder why they would ALL die?..