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I am using AE multi machine render settings over a network drive with 2 machines.  Comp includes elements from Video Copilot plugins.  The ambient occlusion settings appear to differ despite the same AE project being open on both machines.  Certain elements in the comp are rending with slightly different settings for each machine, creating a flicker effect when played back at the intended video fps.  Both machines have all the necessary elements installed locally to complete an exact identical render.  What am I doing wrong?

Well, have you actually tested it? E3D will e.g. truncate the number of samples to the highest possible value internally, but still allow you to overcrank sliders. This sounds like exactly that - you may have set 32 samples or whatever, but internally only 16 or 8 are used. You can only find that out by actually interactively opening the project and changing those values.
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