Silver keyboard on Satellite A200

I bought a new Satellite A200, and now after having used it for 4 hours straight, there's a brownish haze on the W, A, S, D and L-Shift key. It's not even a week!

Just to be clear, it's not dirt, I wash my hands carefully before touching my new laptop!
I tried to clean it with a damp cloth, SOAP and even cleaner display, but it seems that the key itself changes color because of the contact with my fingers.
This happened yet my old white book of 2 year, nor my beige office keyboard, or my sisters laptop 4 years with white keyboard (which I use regularly to play games).

Does anyone else have this problem or get a keyboard of a bad lot / without a coat on the keys?

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I have P200 with the same keyboard, more than two months and he uses for work. This means that using keyboard extensively. After two months the keyboard is still like new. Sorry, but what to say in your case. Your fingers are dirty somehow or it comes because of sweat.

If you use it for games I can imagine that the pressure is much stronger than usual. Maybe you play action games and it is logical that the fingers are more sweat than usual. ;)

Sorry but I have no other explanation.

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