I can''t seem to get the lights to work properly in my program. When I do the tutorial it works but in my program when lighting is enabled it is very dark and won''t change no matter what I do.

It can be anything but a common problem is to set the normals correct.

I just learned about lighting myself, and I had that same problem. It was fixed as soon as I defined materials for my vertices. Look up glMaterialfv and it may fix your problem.

try this
float amb[] = {10,10,10,10};
glLightfv(...,GL_AMBIENT,amb);

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