2003 Toyota Avalon 3.0 L 125000 miles
The dealer really struggled with solving this problem a couple years ago. I finally figured out that the common connection to the lights on the dash and the key warning had to do with the fact that the switch itself was Central to all of those things. I simply used an electrical contact spray, flush the key way completely out, it was full of black stuff, no doubt key ware and dirt. That fixed it.