ahhh, okay, good good. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, but before patching, I took a look at the main RE4 thread and apparently you HAVE to have like 5 gigs of free space or whatever on the dr ...
okay, I patched the euro release of Resident Evil 4 to 1.10 via the recent patch, but instead of fixing the lighting, I now have black covering just about everything in the game: