Fantastic Voyage: Lighting problem, Any help appreciated

Im having a really tough time figuring out what is wrong with the lighting in the scene. when I add any lights and render it out it looks like the first rendered picture whereas in the perspective view it looks like the second. When there is no lights in the scene and I go into lighting mode it looks like the first rendered image. I have checked the apply output transform to renderer option, Its almost as if the renderer is not picking up the lights at all. Im rendering in mental ray and tried maya software and it's still no dice. I tried all different cameras and lights and nothing has changed. If anyone could offer any help at all I would really appreciate it.