And related, my objects in loading screens are red. After some googleing it seems like thats a result of using saveini, but the solution(deleting some lines from the Skyrim.ini that get generated by "saveini") obviously isnt working for me

Edit: From what I recall the one time I did this back when the game came out it generated a new Skyrim.ini in my install directory, it did not modify the Skyrim.ini in my Documents directory. So I dont see why that would cause a red screen, unless the game is also using config files in its install directory?