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Are you sure the bulbs are fine? Did you look at them or measure them with an ohm meter or try new ones?
You'd be surprised the number of cars over the years that came to me with this issue and both bulbs popped on a road bump and the owner looked at the filaments and thought they were fine by but measured a high resistance when checked.

That being said, as for an easy swap, No.
The lamp assembly has a large plug for everything, lamps signals drl's etc .

The plugs inside for the low and high beam bulbs are different. They look similar but one is slightly fatter and I believe a different colour to match the bulb base colour. You would need to cut and splice either outside at the main plug or internally. The lamp assemblies are easily removed with two white clips that lift up and then the whole shebang could be brought inside.

The outside plug wires colours are pink for high and bark blue for low. Inside the assembly? I would have to check, but switching the wrong ones would be problematic.

There is a relay involved if you have the automatic headlights thingy but the low beam contact in the high/low switch in the stalk needs to be closed for this to have an effect.

Essentially, one side of all the lamps are connected to 12 volts through a fuse(one for each side of the car). The other side of the bulb is connected to ground through a low beam contact in the stalk and either an automatic headlamp relay contact or the manual headlamp switch on the end of the stalk.
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So if you had automatic headlights and rotating the end switch on the stalk (you have tried that yes.) does not work then the switch is toast.

Switching the wires should work but what it does to the high beam indicator, DRL's etc , who knows.

cheers

ADDED: The wires connected to the battery are orange for low and orange with a black strip for high. Switching these will do nothing for the lamps.
Note that there is a second orange wire (go figure??) for the cornering light but it is a smaller diameter.

Another add: The info above is from a 2001 intrigue, I presume the 1999 is the same.