It seems like I'm the only one going through this. When you first meet face to face with Alan Morton, he flees after the dialogue, and then you pull some switches to overload the powergrid. Switch 1 to the left of the autopsy table won't allow you to interact with it at all. Please PLEASE don't tell me I have to restart my freakin' game over again!

Hmm... are you sure that is the right switch? If I remember well, you can only pull them in a certain order (Aline always tells you where to go next). Perhaps you should look around for some other switches first...
But in the worst case, you could always return to an earlier save (you DID save at different places using multiple save slots, didn't you?).

I keep reloading the save from before I went into the lab and it's the same thing. I am prompted to flip the switch near the desk with the chair in front of it. I try going anywhere else and Aline tells me to go back. It almost seems like the chair isn't letting me access the switch. I guess I will just have to start all over again. This really blows big balls.