Issues with PSN Version

Okay, still in this desert palace. I've gone past the moogle in the library, made the staircase of light appear, and have now run up them to what appears to be a dead-end. Ran around a bit. Can't find anything. Read a walkthrough - said I must go up the staircase I ran up and light the candles at the top. I can see the candles. But light them, I can not.

Have I done something wrong or is this a glitch?

That is normal. There are candles on three different levels, you can only light them from top to bottom. First light the ones at the very top level (go through the door), then the ones in the middle (go through the door) and then the ones at the bottom. Now go through the door, light the candles and go back. You can now go to the left (you also hear a mogry sound).

Did you go to the screen past the moogle on the left?

This might help:

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Originally Posted by FAQ/Walkthrough by A l e x

Now when you return to the library you can go
left through the stained glass and speak with the Moogle. You should have a
letter for him so deliver it. Be sure to save your game and use a Tent before
you continue. Put out the candle on the right side of the ground floor than
take the path leading away from the mid-level. Light the candlestick on your
way up and the other when when you reach the top as well. Now maybe I'm the
only one here but I've beaten the game more times than I can count but I still
get stuck here and figure out where to go until it finally hits me, you can
keep going further left past that Moogle in the library. To me it just seems
like one of those things in games that comes up now and then and really just
isn't indicated well enough, I'll bet people have wandered this place for
hours trying to figure out where to go. Anyway back to the game again, return
to the Moogle and head left. Light the two candles here and then inspect the
bloodstone to receive 'Black Hood.' Go through the door and around to the
other side, light all these candles as well then check the bloodstone for a
'Venetia Shield.' Now what you need to do is put out the candle on the left
(not the one under the picture though, the one that affects the shadow) so
that the statue's shadow is facing left, then go to the other side and put out
the candle on the left so the statue's shadow is facing left as well. Now a
path should appear leading up. Light the candlestick at the top and get ready.

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I missed a candle on the way up to the library area. Backtracked down and found it.

Don't get me started on the Desert Palace. I dislike that part of the game intensely. As it is coupled with Dagger's loss of concentration phase.

I've never had any issues with the Desert Palace in all the playthroughs I've done of FFIX, but I know what that FAQ McLovin' posted means when it says it's just "one of those things that comes up every now and again".

I remember having no idea that I had to go to Mideel to find mako-poisoned Cloud in FFVII. I would've visited everywhere else in the world three or four times over before I thought to go back to that southern island =S

I did it when I was 7 by randomly walking around lighting torches.

Then again, I brought Eiko to Oelivert.

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Originally Posted by Laddy

I did it when I was 7 by randomly walking around lighting torches.

Then again, I brought Eiko to Oelivert.

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I brought Garnet and Vivi to Oelivert. I didn't really read the whole magical barrier thing. But had Zidane and Steiner, so somehow it all worked out quite easily.