Lighting, Light Fixtures, Ceiling and Exhaust Fans - Ceiling Light and Dimmer Switch

Help! I am trying to install a new ceiling light and I can not make it work -- now that it's dark my husband is getting cranky. I took down a fixture with a fan that worked with a remote control. The ceiling has 2 black wires, 2 white wires, 1 red wire and a ground. The wall switch (which never worked - maybe because of the remote) has 2 black, 2 white, 1 red and a ground. This is the only switch that is suppoed to control the light. Any help on how to wire this up would be really appreciated - as I mentioned, it is getting dark...

Aaah, the uses for digital cameras is infinite. Always take a picture of what you are tearing up before you tear it up, so you can put it back together. Anyway, enough of what your husband would say....Do you have any diagnostic tools? Tick tracer, volt meter? You will have to determine which wire in your switch box is hot. The remaining black and red will be either runners or dedicated to the fan/light. Is the red wire capped off at either end? Are (were) any of the blacks capped off?

Thank you for not channelling too much of my husband. Since this is day two with no light, he is doing fine at that himself.

Originally, the fan I removed was connected to the 2 black and 2 white, with the red capped off. I tried to hook up the new light the same way, but the curcuit at the breaker box wouldn't close (I was sure it was trying to tell me something, so I listened and un-did that).

The switch did not control the old fan/light. It was a dummy switch or something. It had 1 black and 1 white connected to it, with 1 black, 2 white and 1 red capped off.

I am not sure how to tell if the light is wired wrong or the switch or both. I would love some help this morning to redeem myself without burning down the house.:o

Now we're getting somewhere. In the canopy of the fan, you said the fan was connected to the two black and one white wires. Think hard, was it one black and one white to one of the fan wires, or two blacks to a fan wire. You have a switch loop, and that is why the switch has a white and black attached to it. We'll get it, just post responses and don't get too upset at all the questions. We want it done right, and we can't see what you see.