| It's not an alignment problem with the thing that's supposed to move the lever. That's cool. I used my big honkin screwdriver as a substituted for the "loop" on the hood to trip the hood catch thing. Those springs on the hood release stuff are pretty massive. In any case, when the hood is closed, it definitely moves the arm on the switch.
So, either the button(?) on the switch is stuck, or more likely, the switch itself somehwere inside the black plastic housing is hosed.
Since I discovered I can just unplug it and the light goes away, I'm less interested in actually fixing it. But I'll probably pop the switch off the car and bring it inside this evening anyway, after I put the snow tires back on the car. | 
