After Effects composition greyed out on Premiere Pro timeline.

Hi,
I have created a timeline in PP CS4, right clicked certain clips and replaced them with AE compositions (using Dynamic Link) and I have then tried to motion stabilize these clips.
However, having completed the motion stabilization in AE and switched back to PP, the clip is greyed out (diagonal bars across it) on the timeline, and scrubbing through the clip now show me that there is no longer any contents shown in the Program monitor.
What gives? Are there certain things that can't be carried through the Dynamic Link feature from AE to PP?
Is there a work-around to this problem?
Thanks
Mikkel

I have same problem, render queue opens and menu items greyed out. I cannot find ae_render_only_node.txt on my system. Am also getting warnings to update CUDA which I did. Now get a warning about not enough VDRAM for 3D... Using latest AE CC 2014 on Yosemite.
Any more suggestions? I just want to open AE and don't plan to do 3D work for now.
Thanks,
C

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