Can anybody tell me how I can make my renders look a little less... "cartoony"? or maybe give me some advice on how to edit the lighting? because I'm pretty sure that that is why my renders look like that.

try opening your render settings and set it to render normal rather than cartoon. that may be all it is that is holding you up with having normal looking renders.  and if that doesn't help maybe turn the intensity of your light down a couple percentage points

render type is on normal, but I'm still getting that glowing look. so it must be the lighting. um how do you lower the light intensity?... sorry, I'm new with this program...

have you added any lights to your scene ?  if you have you can click on the scene tab on the right of your work area and you can select the lights individually, then in your parameters scroll down to the bottom and you'll find a colour bar and intensity bar as well as the shadow settings.

and no worries about being new and not knowing cause well i only found this out about a month or two ago and i have been playin around in DAZ for a year and a half

It also looks like you are rendering in OpenGL mode, and not in 3Delight mode.  Try switching to 3Delight :) 

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This looks very much like a render with too much light and no shadows. As HalfDragon says, you can select your lights in the Scene tab, just like a character or prop, and if you scroll all the way to the bottom you'll see the intensity slider. I try not to run more than 50-60% intensity from any one light. To add shadows, go to the "Shadow Type" dropdown and select your preferred method. I like 3Delight but it's really a fairly minor difference. Then make sure your render tab is set to do a Software Render.

Here's a decent little tutorial on lights and cameras:

digilander.libero.it/maclean/DStutorial.htm

The DAZ version is slightly outdated, so some of the screenshots may look odd to you, but the information is still good.

Hope this helps!

Another thing to try out is dream-lounge.com

They have some free light sets and a couple of free tutorials.  However its worth joining for the in depth tutorials