Hello
I am missing all the candlesticks in the game. The lights (the flames) are here but not the candles/candlesticks (eg: the candlesticks on the table in Dragonsreach or on Warmaiden's counter)
I have completely reinstalled Skyrim from Steam, with the latest patch (1.5) and have only the HD textures fix running. I have tried with a new save game.
Is it possible that, somehow, my game is corrupted because of the previous mods I have been running (Realistic Lighting, etc., Skyrim Realistic Overhaul) even if I deleted all the mods and reinstalled Vanilla Skyrim?
It's driving me mad, please help!

First thing to try is to delete the ini file and reboot clean versions of those from steam
So go to Documents/MyGames/Skyrim and then Delete the notepad files marked Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini
then go to Steam click on Library, right click on Skyrim then on Properties at the bottom of the drop down.
On the drop down page select Local Files, then Verify Integrity of Game Cache.
Steam will check the installation and regenerate clean .ini files which should put the candles back and take out any weirdness from previous mods or whatever. It won't effect the patch or anything else unless you have tweaked the shadows or something in the ini in which case you will have to put those back.
Once its regenerated those files which shouldn't take long you should be good to go.